Example sentences of "that [noun] was [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mid Hampshire coroner , Grahame Short , said : ‘ It seems that Sarah was contemplating at that time taking her life . |
| 2 | She claims that Meryl was sitting on that window seat last night , wearing just her nightclothes . |
| 3 | In other words it 's , it 's sticking from east to west , people will know of all the thing , it 's er tell you that many from eastern parts and western parts were called and reclined at the table , in other words this , well this good news that Jesus was sticking on this |
| 4 | And all of that made the conversation , th the fact that Jesus was talking with this woman , a very improper thing nineteen hundred years ago ! |
| 5 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 6 | The need to regularise transactions in east Kent may also suggest the existence of organised points of entry for traders , but no such settlement of this date has been identified , although there are strong hints that Kent was moving towards that development in the seventh century with commercial centres on the Wantsum Channel and the River Stour ( Hodges 1982a ) . |
| 7 | Carolyn sat rigidly still , appalled that Clare was talking about this in front of the others . |