Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that I was where I was might be highly unlikely ; that did not make his being there any more likely . |
| 2 | As long as my father was alive I felt that I was not myself but his son , as I hope my son will feel for me — if I ever have a son , that is . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I mean ’ , said Stephen , ‘ that I was not myself as I am now , as I had to become . ’ |
| 4 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 5 | He had a set of photocopied notes , which implied that I was n't his first apprentice . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , ’ she assured him cheerfully , but suddenly thought to ask , ‘ Did you tell your cousin that I was n't your friend — in the ‘ girlfriend ’ sense , I mean — by the way ? ’ |
| 7 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 8 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 9 | Have you forgotten that I was once their mother 's maid ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Mama never spoke of her family , insisting that she had been born an orphan , ’ Joan said , still unable to fully comprehend that she was not whom she had thought she was . |
| 11 | He would sense that she was not herself . |
| 12 | I must state that she was not my favourite person . |
| 13 | Why had n't she told him straight out that she was not his cousin 's girlfriend ? |
| 14 | She parked her car with the ever-present worry about her mortgage on her mind and was , in a weak moment , of the opinion that she should try to get through to Naylor Massingham that she was not his cousin 's girlfriend , and to explain the innocence of Travis staying the night at her flat . |
| 15 | ‘ A ’ comes round quite a lot to get her eyebrows done and she was quite hurt when she found out that she was n't my type — ‘ what 's the matter with me ? ’ |
| 16 | Except that she was n't his patient . |
| 17 | He had already told her that she was n't his type . |
| 18 | The android appeared to accept that she was n't his target . |
| 19 | But did the man she had wanted to lie with have to be such a swine — and make out that she was just anybody 's ? |
| 20 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 21 | that 's right , that 's , that , I think it was so , I mean that she was so it must be just something to do with gardens as well , cos she was a gardener was n't she ? , |
| 22 | He had forced his way into her life , arranged things so that she 'd had no choice but to do his bidding — and as soon as she 'd done something to make it clear that she was still her own person and not his , he 'd humiliated her . |
| 23 | Maybe it was n't easy for them to love you Robbie , knowing that you were n't their own . |
| 24 | I was , I was looking to see that you were n't your fingers and dear . |
| 25 | ‘ Only that you were not your best , Father . |
| 26 | I needed a new designer and I had a very strong instinct that you were precisely what I was looking for . |
| 27 | Then for a sign that we were where we were |
| 28 | Where we were told that we were not what our ancestors were . |
| 29 | ( This does not mean that there were not plenty of Irishmen who paid some ‘ friend ’ from the old country unnecessarily for the privilege of finding a job in the New World . ) |
| 30 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |