Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 2 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 3 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 4 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 5 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 6 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 7 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 8 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 9 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 10 | I meant that I was under the impression the Spaniards had strong beliefs about virginal brides and the sanctity of marriage and children and a strong family unit . ’ |
| 11 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 12 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 13 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 14 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 15 | The three weeks that I was in the scheme for — they trained me to see if I could do the job properly , they were able to see what I 'd be like when I was doing the job . |
| 16 | Now they tell me , ’ he said flatly , ‘ that I was in the river , drowning , and Charlotte here pulled me out and brought me round . ’ |
| 17 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 18 | I voiced my resentment openly , but my fatigue was confided only to my diary and to those of my friends who already knew that I was in the habit of getting up and wandering around at night . |
| 19 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 21 | As Martha tried on each garment in turn , Elizabeth could see that she was on the verge of tears . |
| 22 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 23 | Joanna 's mouth opened and Sophie could see that she was on the verge of an angry retort but the situation was saved by the entry of the veterinary nurse , carrying a tray . |
| 24 | She had n't told Alice , that she was on the hook . |
| 25 | He must indeed have been utterly determined to thwart her — not to say very certain that she was on the train . |
| 26 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 27 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 28 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 29 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 30 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |