Example sentences of "they were that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do not know what sort of friends they were that they would let a young woman come to them on her own ! |
| 10 | they were that had bigger to ones |