Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] was [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 2 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
| 3 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 4 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 5 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 6 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 7 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 8 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 9 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 10 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 11 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 12 | At home the attitude of my parents-in-law was that I was from outside Pakistan , so I must be very independent — although I never showed my independence . |
| 13 | Thank heavens , she was thinking , that she was on good terms with Kirsty 's teacher . |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that she was from middle-class Dublin was obvious in that she was more strident than the farming kids from the south-east of Ireland . ’ |
| 15 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 16 | ‘ That she was in good hands . ’ |
| 17 | There was some evidence that she was in complete ignorance of the power of attorney and of her power of sale . |
| 18 | As I made these suggestions to her , I was continually reminding her that she was feeling very relaxed and comfortable and that she was in complete control of the situation and need do nothing ( even in her imagination ) that she did not choose to . |
| 19 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 20 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 21 | He glanced briefly at Fernando and , satisfied that she was in safe hands , turned back to the lovely air stewardess . |
| 22 | She waved away Erika 's protest that she was in strict training . |
| 23 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 24 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 25 | Baker said in the debate that it was for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to chose the option of peace by withdrawing Iraqi forces . |
| 26 | The US government announced on Aug. 24 that it was to double Estonia 's credit limit for buying grain to US$10,000,000 . |
| 27 | The party manifesto stressed the importance of the link within the UK to the extent that it was of paramount importance that any proposals made by the Constitutional Convention must be fully acceptable to the United Kingdom government and people . |
| 28 | In researching this complex and multi-faceted problem , we felt that it was of paramount importance to place this issue within an historical , international and political context . |
| 29 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |
| 30 | She noticed this peculiar fish and although she was not a fish specialist , she became convinced that it was of great importance . |