Example sentences of "that [pron] was [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 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
| 24 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 25 | So erm in spite of all the odds of trying to get a candidates a at the beginning , and finding that there was n't one available , and it would n't Is n't one e well not did n't exist . |
| 26 | We apologise to all those fans of the Festival Ball who complained so bitterly last year that there was n't one ! |
| 27 | He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there . |
| 28 | He suddenly decided that there was n't anything I could possibly do , nothing I could pick up . |
| 29 | This sort of optimism about sexuality that seemed to have inside it this implicit model that sexuality was a good thing , that that by erm experiencing more sexuality , more sexual pleasure , we could all be happier , nicer people , that there was n't anything inherently wrong with sex . |
| 30 | The Troop Commander thought that they were probably flying round the same small area in a patch of strong sunlight to keep warm ; the Troop Staff Sergeant opined that there was probably something nasty buried beneath the carpet of dead leaves . |