Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each abuse reminded me that I was worthless and throughout my life events have told me that this was so . ’ |
| 2 | And if she says you were wrong to ask for the things , tell her that I say you were right , and that I was pleased to help . |
| 3 | You have to put a book in first , that I was first to speak this morning , you were second and then it 'll be either Kelly Ann or Stephen next . |
| 4 | The others were pretty and popular , I was trying desperately to fit in with them , but it was dreadful to have something that I was proud of , and happy with — my body — made fun of in that way , by my friends . |
| 5 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 6 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 7 | I felt , wretchedly , that I was such a moral coward , such a sickening liar , that making a promise I knew I had no intention whatever of keeping was hardly any worse than what I had already done . |
| 8 | Has it ever occurred to you that I was wedded and bedded and well pregnant by the time I was your age ? |
| 9 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 10 | I replied that I was convinced not only that she was now dead but that she had died on the day you wrote to me … |
| 11 | After a troubled night I went to Government House next morning and said to HE that I was convinced that this would be a disastrous step and that if it was decided to take it I must resign on the spot and announce in public my reasons for doing so . |
| 12 | But , having regard to all the circumstances , and particularly the nature of the second mortgage , I for my part would find it impossible to say that I was convinced that the appellants had the necessary intention to act in contempt of court . |
| 13 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 14 | I do not know whether this was associated with the fact that no one ever sought a tea meeting with me and that I was relieved of the obligation of conducting a rather spurious theological discussion on the basis of almost total ignorance . |
| 15 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 16 | I was completely pissed off that I was 16 and I had n't done it yet . |
| 17 | I made it very clear from the start that I was married but having problems . |
| 18 | On the other hand , I had read the paper since I was 11 and had about half a dozen good jokes about The Cure that I was keen to share with the nation . |
| 19 | As a second , hypothetical example , suppose that I was keen to make some contribution to human physiology or anatomy , and suppose I noted that very little work has been done on the weight of human earlobes . |
| 20 | Rut before he 'd pay any money he had to be satisfied that I was red-haired all over ! |
| 21 | It was also at Canberra Primary School in White City that I first realized that I was black . |
| 22 | White feminist friends would not even accept the fact that I was Black ! |
| 23 | It is , it was a case it was a case with me that I was black or white and that 's why that 's why it hit the press like it did . |
| 24 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 25 | ‘ But I should hate to think that I was intrusive . ’ |
| 26 | This proved futile , and when I decided eventually to rise , it was still so dark that I was obliged to turn on the electric light in order to shave at the sink in the corner . |
| 27 | Using my normal methods , I hypnotized Clive ; he was such a tense young man that I was grateful that he had already experienced regression . |
| 28 | I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House . |
| 29 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 30 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |