Example sentences of "that i was [pos pn] " 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 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 6 | I admired him , I respected him and I was flattered that I was his friend . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 . |