Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 2 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 3 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 4 | ‘ No , but I ca n't say that I was paying much attention . ’ |
| 5 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 6 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 7 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 9 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
| 10 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 11 | He glanced around , satisfied that nobody was taking any notice of his suspicious behaviour , then opened the door fractionally and peered inside . |
| 12 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 13 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 14 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 15 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 16 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 17 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lily had told her , she hoped tactfully , that she was asking six girls from the show to be her attendants . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This over-vigilance or sensitization meant that you were noticing all sorts of minor physical symptoms you would have normally ignored … . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She turned and leant against the edge of the parapet , so that we were facing opposite ways , and came to a decision . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | There was a discernable impact , and in any case , part of the concept is to create an interest in books at Christmas , and we are happy that we were creating extra sales and an awareness of books . ’ |
| 28 | That we were watching last night . |
| 29 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 30 | I crouched down so that we were eyeballing each other and began to pull funny faces , the sort of expressions you do in traffic jams when you do n't think anyone 's watching . |