Example sentences of "[pers pn] that this [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 2 | Gradually , it dawned on me that this was an organisation which would allow me to take and give . |
| 3 | ‘ Each abuse reminded me that I was worthless and throughout my life events have told me that this was so . ’ |
| 4 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 5 | It just occurred to me that this was the day I was not meant to see ’ |
| 6 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 7 | However , Patrick Eggle assured me that this was just a spooky coincidence , and even that some players had remarked upon a tendency for the bottom string to slip off the bridge , so he was going to move it anyway . |
| 8 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |
| 9 | Long experience had told me that this was to be expected . |
| 10 | Everyone signed , as my wife considerately whispered to me that this was Sweden , after all , where liquor was … but she did n't have to tell me . |
| 11 | up until then I still was n't too worried , but I think then it started to dawn on me that this was n't going to be much fun and I felt a bit scared . |
| 12 | And as soon as I cradled the mass in my arms the conviction flooded through me that this was going to be the same as all the others . |
| 13 | He told me that this was not a good time of the year to see Riga . |
| 14 | He reminded them that this was the 500th anniversary of the New World by Christopher Columbus , an important discovery as was St Paul 's discovery of the new world of Incarnation , for mankind . |
| 15 | And I , I , I , I , I , I would not have endeavoured to persuade you that this was going to be the land reform document that was , that this is it . |
| 16 | His long memory also told him that this was a moment of his life when he felt a total rapport with Fisher . |
| 17 | We told him that this was a band for full-timers not part-timers . |
| 18 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 19 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 20 | The more he thought about it , the more it became clear to him that this was a job for a real professional . |
| 21 | His common sense told him that this was a girl for him , but that sophisticated vision of Julie Murchison kept blurring the scene . |
| 22 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 23 | Attlee persuaded him that this was impractical . |
| 24 | The Emperor himself ordered its destruction , but even advisers inured to sycophancy were forced to advise him that this was an impossibility . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 26 | I showed him that this was terrible for me , and he understood . |
| 27 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 28 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 29 | It dawned on him that this was precisely the wrong thing to say , but Hrun had already pushed Twoflower away and was reaching for the Luggage … |
| 30 | She hesitated , but not long enough to show him that this was the simple truth . |