Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still overwhelmed by the painting , but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed , and this , somehow , seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me . ’ |
| 2 | i wonder … what was I trying to prove ? just that I was not a sheep , waiting to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 3 | After all that I was going to live on … alone … to write the ‘ Memoirs ’ … to listen to Mozart in Salzburg . |
| 4 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 5 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 6 | My horror at the fact that it was not unpleasant , that I was almost enjoying it , and that it was killing me . |
| 7 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |
| 8 | Rather , a wonder that I was ever interested in starting . |
| 9 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 10 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 11 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 12 | Bernini was arguably the most important architect and sculptor in my period and Charles had effectively indicated that I was not competent to lecture on him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 15 | ‘ This is a zoo , ’ I muttered to myself , failing to realize that I was now also supposedly less than human . |
| 16 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 17 | The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go . |
| 18 | The following morning at nine o'clock I went back to the coffee shop , just to show that I was still around . |
| 19 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 20 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 21 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 22 | The blazer badge reinforced the ‘ capture of bodies ’ philosophy which had sustained our earlier lives , but was created at the same time that I was compiling a paper for presentation at the national BMA police surgeons ' conference . |
| 23 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 24 | Nightmares and night-time anxiety , are a regular feature of Leonard 's work , though he did remark to us , ‘ I do n't think that I was scarred by anything . ’ |
| 25 | I played with the idea that I was Messiah … ’ |
| 26 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 27 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 28 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 29 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 30 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |