Example sentences of "and that [pron] [was/were] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 2 | He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse … |
| 3 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 4 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 5 | It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation . |
| 6 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 7 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 8 | If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check . |
| 9 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 10 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |