Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 2 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 3 | Th th when the house was built it was painted and I think that used to last it 's lifetime . |
| 4 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 5 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 6 | The Queen returned , but it was said that she insisted that the Shah get rid of Gilda . |
| 7 | The adrenalin was pumping but I knew that I could control it , knew that it was necessary to a good performance . |
| 8 | The poet 's wife was told when they arrived that they would want to film her . |
| 9 | A chamber was opened and I realised that , like many wise householders , Santerre used one room to store huge vats of water against the very fire we were now fighting . |
| 10 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 11 | Colchester North MP , Bernard Jenkin , was speaking as it emerged that the Danes had approved the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum by 56.8 per cent to 43.2 pc . |
| 12 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 13 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |
| 14 | According to the NCC , the offer was refused and she claimed that the bailiffs told her that they would kick her door down . |
| 15 | Sukarno was rebuffed when he asked that there should be a Greater Indonesia including the British territories , Malaya , Singapore and North Borneo . |
| 16 | In September 1987 an official of West L.B. , Paul Kiang , was arrested although it seems that he was not actually charged until June 1988 . |
| 17 | When the draw was announced and I found that I was next to Carl Lewis I thought that it was just brilliant , because we run our races in a similar fashion and I thought he could drag me through . |
| 18 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |
| 19 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 20 | A young woman once interviewed on the radio was asked whether she felt that working as a cleaner was beneath her . |
| 21 | John Chant asked how the above was progressing and I explained that we have had initial draft typeset — he has asked to see a copy which I have passed to him today . |
| 22 | In the 1970s this ‘ elitist ’ stance was criticised because it implied that ‘ culture ’ and ‘ art ’ were inherently undemocratic . |
| 23 | The smaller man was retreating and it seemed that his guard was weakening . |
| 24 | Does the Minister accept that the Secretary of State was mistaken when he said that the initial slow and small take-up of student loans showed that there was no widespread poverty and hardship among students since all the evidence of citizens advice bureaux , Members ' mail and so on shows clearly that , because of the reducing value of student grants and the attack on student benefits , there is real and widespread hardship and poverty among the British student population ? |
| 25 | But he was mistaken if he thought that he could upset her . |
| 26 | Her decision was reinforced when she heard that the Queen Mother , with whom she has also clashed , was also going to attend the wedding . |
| 27 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 28 | In July 1985 the Comptroller and Auditor General 's Report was published and it concluded that there were weaknesses in the control and deployment of nursing staff . |
| 29 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |
| 30 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |