Example sentences of "that [pron] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others . |
| 2 | He had a poor opinion of the utility of book-learning to the Masai , and it was no doubt in part due to his influence that nothing was done in Tanganyika to bring education to them till the 1930s , whereas the first government school was opened in Kenya Masailand in 1921 . |
| 3 | Kalm noted that the spent tan was afterwards spread in the garden as manure and that nothing was laid On pots in the summer , compared with Moscow where he had seen sawdust used to keep them moist . |
| 4 | James asked , contributing to the elaborate pretence that everyone was thinking about the Redburns , not Abbotsfield . |
| 5 | As long ago as 1911 Edmund Holmes wrote of schools that were ‘ ridden by the examination incubus ’ , arguing that everyone was cheated by a system whose merit-order and pass-lists were nothing but ‘ outward signs ’ . |
| 6 | Rostov turned round and saw that everyone was bowing except Alexei . |
| 7 | I looked around , and it seemed that everyone was looking at Kezia . |
| 8 | She was lost in thought , and did not seem to notice that everyone was looking at her . |
| 9 | He was aware that everyone was looking at him , and it was clear what they were thinking . |
| 10 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 11 | Blake felt that everyone was looking at him . |
| 12 | The first two figures revealed that everyone was looking to the farm to be financially viable . |
| 13 | Snapping open her eyes , she realized that everyone was staring at her , everyone was talking about her , everyone knew that she was about to — |
| 14 | Er , once they were able to leave the home and so that everyone was looked after , they never left our care really and |
| 15 | I howled even more when I saw that everyone was laughing at me , Andreas , my mother , various passers by . |
| 16 | That is the two hundred million that I was referring to er , earlier , was n't in place at the time that we made our write there . |
| 17 | ‘ It was as a cook that I was sailing with Clive . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 19 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 20 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 21 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 22 | The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out . |
| 23 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
| 24 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 25 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 26 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 27 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 28 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 29 | She felt that I was getting in the way . |
| 30 | Er , prior to that I was trained as an electrician . |