Example sentences of "that [pron] was [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initial meeting , I felt that ‘ they ’ — that 's the advertising company , personified by Richard — felt that I was their man . |
| 2 | That I was her friend , not her enemy . |
| 3 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 4 | I understood that he was thanking me , and I tried to show him that I was his friend . |
| 5 | I admired him , I respected him and I was flattered that I was his friend . |
| 6 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 7 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 8 | But then there was that newspaper review which mentioned that I was your wife , and Eleanor began to hear rumours about us getting back together again . |
| 9 | But Müller had never done business that way , and it was evident that she was her father 's daughter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You should have told me that she was your life . |
| 12 | Fighting back in earnest now , Luce said , ‘ I had n't realised then that she was your fiancée . |
| 13 | You told us earlier that she was your girlfriend . |
| 14 | She wanted to please him , to see him smile , and tease her by calling himself the Master , and pretending that she was his slave . |
| 15 | Her connection with the duke is not explained , but it is possible that she was his mistress since Gloucester 's illegitimate daughter bore the same Christian name . |
| 16 | Her connection with the duke is not explained , but it is possible that she was his mistress since Gloucester 's illegitimate daughter bore the same Christian name . |
| 17 | Also , according to Aszal , they said they did not doubt that she was his wife . |
| 18 | As he hopped along beside her , she hopped and sang too , to show him that she was his friend . |
| 19 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 20 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 21 | She is alleged to have convinced him that she was his mother and then forced him to have sex with her . |
| 22 | She might have extracted Simon 's solemn oath that if she attended as he wished , the pretence that she was his girlfriend would be dropped for once and for all , but was that the whole reason ? |
| 23 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 24 | People later thought that she was my manager , but we were just good friends . |
| 25 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 26 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 27 | Either way , the word seems to suggest that it was their inability or refusal to suckle which was regarded as characteristic — a supposition exactly in line with my theory that they represent the masculine , aggressive , weaning mothers of early agriculture . |
| 28 | I quickly told them that it was their problem and they who had to sort it out . |
| 29 | Opposition to the project became the focus of the resistance to the Communist government and Hungarian Greens claim that it was their mobilisation of the country against the state on this particular issue which led to the regime 's downfall . |
| 30 | That he could do this without awakening the slightest resentment ill the boys was a sign that they recognised that it was their work that mattered to Basil , and in no way his self-importance , which , to a quite remarkable degree he did not have . |