Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other people do n't need to be diminished by you in that way — and in any case it shows you 're insecure about your own status . |
| 2 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 3 | She played with her leather gloves , turning each finger inside-out then carefully back again , aware that he was looking at her in that old , familiar searching way that somehow held her spellbound , draining her will to push the door and get away . |
| 4 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 5 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |