Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in August , after sending the department a recorded delivery letter every month from January , I was finally informed that my husband would be granted his claim — but they could n't make the payment yet because they had lost his file . |
| 2 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 3 | Finally on this aspect of the matter , I was not persuaded that any of the defendants was unable to prevent the nuisance . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't implying that you were , ’ said Robyn , flushing . |
| 5 | ‘ Even today I was n't presuming that I had been chosen . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose I should have noticed that the sand was all trampled but I was n't to know that the sandpit was the personal stamping ground of a large bull reindeer . |
| 7 | is when I first raised my question on that with all those things at the back of my mind , I was n't finding that as we used to get it |
| 8 | I was simply told that I had no vocation . |
| 9 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 10 | When I think that up until last night I was even hoping that I might look at you and wonder what it had all been about — that I 'd feel nothing ! |
| 11 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just thinking that now 's a good time . |
| 13 | ' I was ah — I was just thinking that we really must — must get Willy to give us another shot of his old car ; you know , the Mini he bombs up and down the sands on sometimes ? |
| 14 | I was just thinking that if the case were unblocked — ’ |
| 15 | I was just thinking that we might leave hypothesis aside . |
| 16 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just thinking that this is a most unexpected setting to find the Midnight Raider in . ’ |
| 18 | I was just thinking that we 're doing rather well with one or two steady accounts . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah |
| 20 | Oh that 's a very nice letter , I was just thinking that maybe erm Jill has n't got her birthday card cos she 's the type of person who would write and say thank you , you know to me |
| 21 | I was just thinking that the dinner 's probably only just come on , I did n't quite know how long , how late we be huh . |
| 22 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 23 | I was just saying that during the course of today I hope you 'll complete a questionnaire . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 25 | I was just saying that to Dad here this morning . ’ |
| 26 | I know but I , I was just saying that she |
| 27 | I was just saying that in that respect there 's not really much between John Major and Margaret Thatcher |
| 28 | ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here . |
| 29 | I was also admitting that ‘ I ’ was not a separate entity from my body , that we were both one , and both in need of nutrition . |
| 30 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |