Example sentences of "[pers pn] was that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 2 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 3 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 4 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 5 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
| 6 | What I attempted to tell you was that there is essentially no region that in respect of any land which lies within the general area of the statutorily approved greenbelt , its mere existence within the greenbelt must be taken to mean that it has a greenbelt function . |
| 7 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |
| 8 | All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him . |
| 9 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 10 | The trouble with him was that he was utterly astray here . |
| 11 | All I knew about her was that she was a Quaker elder , had a bad back and a year ago had wanted either my studio or garden to give relaxation classes in . |
| 12 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 13 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 14 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 15 | But in the meantime she was unwilling — no — afraid to know what secret thing it was that they were carrying . |
| 16 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 17 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 18 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 19 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 20 | You know or f or or you know always it was that they were men cos they came from during the strike . |
| 21 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 22 | It was clear , notes Timothy West now , precisely what it was that they were expecting-as he says , ‘ a combination of ‘ Carry On ’ and ‘ Beyond Our Ken ’ . ’ |
| 23 | You have no it was that they were a bit big were n't they anyway I 'm sure we could possibly get it out you could try I suppose . |
| 24 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 25 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 26 | She stood there , staring , immobile at first , before the riot of flesh and lights and people and advertisements , and she wondered what it was that she was supposed to fear , because she could not truly fear anything , in such well-lit company : and she wondered why she was not afraid , when they had all told her , all of them , the Party Organizer and Janice and her upbringing , that she ought to fear . |
| 27 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 28 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 29 | But in due course er when I was still off with flu , erm back to the specialist another test , you know , and that was er March , April of last year and the result of it was that there is something in there which is characteristic of what 's , what we call multiple sclerosis which seems to me is about as broad as it 's long , you know , it 's , it 's a very large |
| 30 | ‘ I was very impressed with the way he played , but then I realised how daunting it was that there were 20 or 30 guys on the Tour playing better than him , ’ he says . |