Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [was/were] do [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
2 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
3 | None has led me to that dangerous conclusion that we were doing it better over there than here . |
4 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
5 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
6 | It was n't what I was doing that was turning her on but the fact that I was doing it there , doing it then , in front of her husband and her husband 's partner and her husband 's partner 's wife and one of her own colleagues . |