Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 2 | BCRS members of all people will understand something of the geography and communications of the area , and will , I am sure , be interested to know that it was to the Stone House that our Secretary was taken after his recent heart attack . ) |
| 3 | It was a relief to know that she was with Eve Malone for the morning , those two could talk until the cows came home . |
| 4 | Thus his freedom to father children was subject to the law , even though he could not be allowed to know that he was under restriction . |
| 5 | At this stage , the Prospect would be anxious to establish that he was under no obligation . |
| 6 | It was that he had found a place in which to discover that there was of course , of course , no such Being at all . |
| 7 | Wendy and I were pleased to find that we were to be billeted in the same small town of Wolverton — pleased , that is , until we saw it ! |
| 8 | ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive . |
| 9 | She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters . |
| 10 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
| 11 | From the beginning she had never tried to pretend that she was in love , although she was very fond of him , and Fred had told her he was happy that she cared enough for him to become his wife . |
| 12 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 13 | The next visit was at two in the morning , just to see that everything was in order . |
| 14 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 15 | But I was delighted to see that it was in fact my hat . |
| 16 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 17 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |
| 18 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 19 | Sullivan ) , we have to acknowledge that it was in many ways an attractive society , and an admirable one . |
| 20 | At the time of the fire , British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , which runs Windscale , used its own estimates of the doses of iodine-131 , the most dangerous radio-isotope released during the fire , on individuals to claim that nobody was at risk . |
| 21 | That meant a substantial breakfast , followed by a word with Posi to confirm that everything was on course and on line . |
| 22 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 23 | It had almost ceased to matter that she was in Paris , and not in love . |
| 24 | By 1984 , Fibres had moved through the period of mere survival to realize that it was on a winning track and could expand , guided by some astute marketing of some of the exciting new products then coming through . |
| 25 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 26 | It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy . |
| 27 | For some the holding of one of these posts was just one stage in their careers , for others a succession of such posts appears to have become a career in itself , though one must be careful to emphasize that there is not enough evidence to suggest that there was in the case of the muderris/muftis anything like as clearly defined a career structure as in the case of the muderrises and the kadis , that there was , in effect , a comparable to the and the . |
| 28 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 29 | I already had reason to suspect that I was by no means flavour-of-the-month at the Oxford International Language College . |
| 30 | Well I seem to recall that we were in the place |