Example sentences of "that this was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 2 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 3 | Then Julius 's mouth closed over hers again , his hands began a series of loving , teasing caresses , and Jessamy forgot everything except that this was her brilliant , stubborn , bullish husband whom she loved very much , and a bright future suddenly shone in front of them . |
| 4 | Instinct would have told her even if Markby had n't that this was one who liked the girls . |
| 5 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 6 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 7 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 8 | Thiercelin congratulated himself silently that this was nothing to do with him . |
| 9 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 10 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 11 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 12 | Pete Astor of The Weather Prophets defines his project as ‘ reactivating and redefining old musical forms ’ , claiming that this was what T. Rex was all about : ‘ revitalizing Chuck Berry and Howlin' Wolf , ’ reapplying these ancients in a pop context and embalming their legacy . |
| 13 | Faces which earlier had seemed a little sombre were now wreathed in ecstatic smiles , and it was clear that this was what they had come to hear . |
| 14 | Endill learned that this was what had happened to his grandfather , Cornelius Swift . |
| 15 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 16 | As we walked through a network of pipes and valves we realized that this was what Hinkley C would look like before its radioactive inventory took over and no human beings could enter where we were standing . |
| 17 | These difficulties were forgotten as we cycled down into town and in hot dry afternoon air , shouting ‘ I thought that this was what the weather was supposed to be like ! ’ |
| 18 | The English people were the first to experience an industrial revolution , and nobody was conscious that this was what was happening to them . |
| 19 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 20 | No one in Parliament objected : the assumption seemed to be that this was what a publicly owned radio service ought to do . |
| 21 | Jesus knew in his own mind that this was what they were thinking , and said to them , ‘ Why do you harbour thoughts like these ? 9 . |
| 22 | Instinctively she knew that this was what he wanted to hear . |
| 23 | Yet the only evidence that he brings forward turns out to be , in fact , the essayists ' own belief that this was what literacy could achieve . |
| 24 | Observations of the composition of the groups over three seasons confirmed that this was what happened . |
| 25 | I said that this was what she 'd been proposing , dummkopf , but Stuart was n't having any of it . |
| 26 | When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married . |
| 27 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 28 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 29 | Berry knew the record business backwards , and he also knew that this was what Virgin 's success had been built on . |
| 30 | He knew , with a gut certainty , that this was what they should do . |