Example sentences of "that they were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 2 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 3 | She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing . |
| 4 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 5 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 6 | But , the next day in court , these same stone-throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . |
| 7 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 8 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 9 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 10 | Those who teach and train children must constantly remind themselves that they were themselves once in the position of the children , and the children will in their turn , one day be in the position of the teachers . |
| 11 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 12 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |
| 13 | And the fact that they were they were not seen too much I mean how do y Do you se Do you view that erm as being a good thing or not ? |
| 14 | and they sa said that they were they would charge for putting all the new wiring in , although you 're still paying for th you know the |
| 15 | The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with . |
| 16 | A number of nineteenth and early twentieth century publishers , in response to public demand , employed special artists in this field and made no pretence that they were anything but modern . |
| 17 | After the first occasion , Timothy managed to contrive other encounters , Topaz never suspecting that they were anything but happy chances . |
| 18 | He examined them from beneath pink-rimmed lids — as if checking that they were his , Trent thought . |