Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 2 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 3 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 4 | I was irritated that he could imagine I would want to go back to him . |
| 5 | yeah , I was watching that erm It 's Your Pry Affair on |
| 6 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 7 | It felt really good to see her again , and I was touched that , after all these years , she had remembered me . |
| 8 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 9 | I admired him , I respected him and I was flattered that I was his friend . |
| 10 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I was warned that I 'd miss the thing I was addicted to . |
| 12 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 13 | His breathing became more and more laboured , but I was assured that he was feeling no discomfort . |
| 14 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |
| 15 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 16 | I was assured that one could discuss any aspect of the Queen 's Speech . |
| 17 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 18 | I was assured that the lad did n't mind , he liked it and , ‘ we 're going to get him again next week ! ’ |
| 19 | I was assured that it will pick everybody up . |
| 20 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 21 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 22 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 23 | I was taught that a consultation in general practice can last many years . |
| 24 | I was taught that when I worked in the grocery warehouse . |
| 25 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 26 | Oh yes , I was assuming that erm a I do , I did n't really set it out as a formal agenda just as a |
| 27 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 28 | It was most unusual to see Taff down like this and as I gave him my condolences I was thinking that the sadness was beginning to reach almost everyone . |
| 29 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 30 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |