Example sentences of "that [subord] i was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather .
2 Well I know that if I was at work .
3 ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more .
4 I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’
5 ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’
6 It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire .
7 I said , ‘ If you 'd told me that while I was in the pool , you 'd have seen another miracle walking on the water ! ’
8 Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out .
9 I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself .
10 wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked
11 All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did .
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