Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's desperate to score one and it was rather curious on Saturday that it was his shot , parried by , a player with an England pedigree should better than the Palace goalkeeper did on that occasion . |
| 2 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 3 | There was no doubt in Harriet 's mind that he was someone called Freddie Nash . |
| 4 | By then James had , somewhat unwillingly , been persuaded by Mar and a few of his leading supporters that it was his duty to preserve the dynasty by making his escape . |
| 5 | But , at this particular time there is no indication that she was one . |
| 6 | Back in 1980 Geoff Yeadon had told Geoff Crossley that it was his ambition to see King Pot and the East Kingsdale Master Cave , linked to West Kingsdale and Keld Head . |
| 7 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 9 | The truth is that there is an embarrassment of riches in Joyce 's work that it was what to leave out which posed the problem , not what to include . |
| 10 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 11 | Farah Aydid told a United States journalist in early December that it was his aim to " capture Mahdi " , whom he described in an International Herald Tribune report of Dec. 10 as more corrupt and dictatorial than former President Siyad Barre . |
| 12 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 13 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 14 | There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s . |
| 15 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | She continued to look extremely doubtful even when Peregrine told the bystanders that it was none of our damn business what happened in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 20 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 21 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 22 | What was more , Fox was satisfied that the presence of Alfred 's fresh prints on the damaged articles was convincing evidence that it was he who had carried out the destruction . |
| 23 | Although Paisley drove Doherty to his first meeting with Murdoch and Marshall , there is no evidence that he was himself involved in the discussions . |
| 24 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 25 | But Adam had retorted quite.reasonably that it was his now , did n't she understand that ? |
| 26 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 27 | At first I was totally humiliated , and then I suppose in my heart , I truly believed that in that one week that he was mine , I could teach him to love me and to forget that Rachel even existed . |
| 28 | But Breeze still had an uneasy feeling that it was something more . |
| 29 | As Paul Preston writes , " the United Nations had given [ Franco ] a winning hand to play , allowing him to persuade the Spanish people that he was their heroic leader in yet another foreign attempt to destroy Spain " . |
| 30 | ‘ It is hard now to convince people that it was anything other than personal between us , ’ Taylor insisted . |