Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 2 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 4 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 5 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 6 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 7 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 8 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 9 | One woman , a party official 's wife , is said by the Anglican vicar to have eaten twenty-one croustades of morels in a sauce of cream and truffle , with a vapeur of Armagnac , in the belief that she was fostering international relations . |
| 10 | Lily had told her , she hoped tactfully , that she was asking six girls from the show to be her attendants . |
| 11 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 12 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 13 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 14 | This over-vigilance or sensitization meant that you were noticing all sorts of minor physical symptoms you would have normally ignored … . |
| 15 | The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well . |
| 16 | She turned and leant against the edge of the parapet , so that we were facing opposite ways , and came to a decision . |
| 17 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 18 | Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe . |
| 19 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 20 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 21 | Under the circumstances it was almost unbelievable that there were do few problems given the fact that ticket holders could see so little of the action . |
| 22 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 23 | Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes . |
| 24 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |
| 25 | A recent independent poll on exactly that matter showed that already , within the first year , a significant number of patients of general practitioners recognised that they were getting better services than a year previously . |
| 26 | It would be fanciful to suppose that Charles and Diana are enjoying marital bliss just months after their faces confirmed that they were living separate lives . |
| 27 | Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place . |
| 28 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 29 | In other business the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of eight members of the nationwide Sanctuary Movement , who claimed that their rights had been violated when agents had infiltrated church services to uncover evidence that they were harbouring illegal aliens from Central America . |
| 30 | The notion that they were mutated terrestrial insects does not bear inspection . |