Example sentences of "that everything [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
| 2 | For much of the eighteenth century , the old belief endured that everything was organized into a great chain of being , linking minerals , plants , animals and men ( and perhaps angels ) . |
| 3 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 4 | The hospital management insists that everything was done under proper nursing supervision . |
| 5 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 6 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |
| 7 | It seemed that everything was conspiring against her . |
| 8 | Rows of silver and china objects filled the mantlepiece and the top of the dressing-table ; there were looking-glasses there and two , framed in mahogany , fixed to the wall , either side of a great gleaming wardrobe so that everything was magnified by reflection , the cushions , the lamps , the fire , the flowered fabrics , the rugs laid on the carpet . |
| 9 | He also insisted that the belief that everything was made for human benefit should not intrude when assessing the merits of rival theories . |
| 10 | Dyson began to feel that everything was going to be all right . |
| 11 | She had ten minutes , that was all , to see that her mother was safely tucked up on Hunter Ward , and reassured that everything was going to be all right . |
| 12 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |