Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 2 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 3 | It did n't much matter that she was in the junkroom of someone else 's home and that her position here was uncertain . |
| 4 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 5 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 6 | Isabella , Mr Edgar 's sister , a pretty girl of eighteen , suddenly declared that she was in love with Heathcliff . |
| 7 | If correct , this apparently means that it was after the conquest of Norway in 1028 and therefore after he attended the imperial coronation of Conrad II of Germany in Rome in 1027 . |
| 8 | The Jet Provost T.5 in question had just heard that it was to be shortly replaced by the Shorts Tucano and immediately took out its angst on a passing erk . |
| 9 | The next visit was at two in the morning , just to see that everything was in order . |
| 10 | They asked him if they were making too much noise and he said no , not at all , he was just checking that everything was in order . |
| 11 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 12 | He gave no reason , just reiterated that there was to be no 200 metres . |
| 13 | Rolle fingered his chest in consternation , trying to work out where this strange warmth had come from , but soon decided that it was from God , because it brought with it a flood of pleasurable and consoling emotion . |
| 14 | I decided not to tell my parents what I had discovered : I would just confirm that we were in Tabiano . |
| 15 | They set out at dusk on 13 September and soon discovered that they were in the wrong wadi . |
| 16 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 17 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |
| 18 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 19 | When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk . |
| 20 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 21 | It was soon discovered that he was in fact spying for the French . |
| 22 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 23 | On Dec. 24 Ershad was finally informed that he was under house arrest " for public safety and public order " and that he was suspected of corruption and abuse of power . |
| 24 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 25 | JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively . |
| 26 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 27 | The court can disregard any injury or damage and still find that he was in charge of the vehicle . |
| 28 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 29 | Surely you always knew that I was in love with you ? ’ |
| 30 | If you were to see an adult goat jump like this , it would usually mean that it was in a desperate situation . |