Example sentences of "[pers pn] were that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thoughts that worried you were that you were either having a heart attack or that you 'd pass out in front of your colleagues … . |
| 2 | ‘ You were that at the most , ’ said Constance . |
| 3 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 4 | ‘ A number of people remarked to me how lucky we were that the first Green Shopping Day coincided with publication of the Green Consumer Guide , ’ she says with amusement . |
| 5 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 6 | When the news did become public , colleagues who had avoided speaking to me when the going got tough reappeared and said how sorry they were that I was leaving . |
| 7 | They were joined , like most of the other foreign armies that came to Lebanon , by a retinue of Lebanese acolytes , of leftist militiamen and Lebanese Baath party functionaries , all of them desperate to explain how delighted they were that the peace-loving Syrians had arrived to save their country . |
| 8 | When they heard this they cried out with one accord that they would do his bidding , and go out with him and fight under his banner , for certain they were that by his good fortune the Moors would be overthrown . |
| 9 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 10 | Further down the street , the local baker would be telling his hapless visitors much the same story as their butcher : the cost of wheat was out of all control , and he was as sorry as they were that his prices were up , while their wages had held steady . |
| 11 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 12 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 13 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 14 | I do not know what sort of friends they were that they would let a young woman come to them on her own ! |
| 15 | they were that had bigger to ones |
| 16 | they use er , a very sort of sparse unpopulated area obviously and so you do get erm plants and animals having to , well change it so that they , er you take as it were that the genes changed , some does mutation probably alright , some probably not . |
| 17 | There the ego has become so fragmented and is so er erm sick as it were that the id has overwhelmed it and the reality sense is lost . |
| 18 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 19 | but you see they reckon it were that Sandra do n't they ? |
| 20 | to feel by duty as it were that they ought to take notice of their immediate family . |