Example sentences of "that [pron] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 2 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 3 | To make sure that I was reading it to Bev right , but then you understand it 's a Connie letter do n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ I played it in the house that I was telling you about . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 6 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 7 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 8 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 9 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 10 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
| 11 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
| 12 | She already felt that she was learning something about art . |
| 13 | Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand . |
| 14 | So she held back on her questioning , though she somehow found that she was telling him of her love of music and how Janáček 's lively sixth movement was one of her particular favourites . |
| 15 | She hated watching sport normally , but Jack guessed that she was taking none of it in . |
| 16 | Her portrayal was so convincing that she was offered nothing but bitch characters . |
| 17 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 18 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 19 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 20 | Her decision was extremely painful , for Beatrice believed ( as it happened incorrectly ) that she was committing herself to a celibate life for ever : |
| 21 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 22 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 23 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 24 | IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’ |
| 25 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 26 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 27 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 28 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 29 | Claudia lifted her arms , putting them round his broad shoulders , hardly conscious that he was divesting her of her jacket and blouse . |
| 30 | Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands . |