Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 2 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 3 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 4 | The ceramics particularly impressed her and she found that they were referred to in the catalogue as " agitational chinaware " . |
| 5 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 6 | Although he does not say so explicitly , this could mean that they were thought of as Trojans . |
| 7 | ( Earlier in June experts had complained to Izvestiya , the organ of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet , that there were still no proper mechanisms for giving these farms land or credit , and that they were discriminated against in equipment supplies . ) |
| 8 | It is tedious enough to have to append footnotes to certain records springing from the county game , explaining that they were arrived at by contrived cricket . |
| 9 | This , however , gives rise to two legends : firstly that it was paid for by Napoleon in gold louis to Mr Veitch , who later buried the coins under the foundation stone of the English church ; and secondly that the wine was never drunk by Napoleon but returned to Madeira after his death to be bottled in 1840 by Blandy 's . |
| 10 | The Dutch courts applied Roman-Dutch criminal law in the Low Country , though it is unlikely that it was adhered to by headmen or officials trying minor offences . |
| 11 | That is the portrait of a don , a don in his supreme incarnation , a don going about the business that he was designed for by nature . |
| 12 | She knew that her eldest son was involved in all manner of criminal activities , that he was thought of as a kind of mobster . |