Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we were rather thinking that might be looking for another job very soon . |
| 2 | Indeed his fellows were not to see that cadet again . |
| 3 | Even the historical travelogues , with their resource to tap existing stocks of costumes and sets , were not proving that great as money savers . |
| 4 | During the Open Forum Gordon Graham , a former PA president and now editor of Logos , expressed concern that because of the United Nations sanctions against Serbia , British books were not reaching that country . |
| 5 | And it is clear that there were , that a very significant proportion were not reaching that level and it 's being taxed . |
| 6 | the rules were not to do that , the ships were n't supposed to stop because apparently the submarines sometimes lurked there |
| 7 | The IPG identified additional work to be done before the changeover : claimants may still have been entitled to special payments before they were abolished or entitled to benefits that they were not claiming that would affect the amount of transitional payments they would receive on transfer to the new system . |
| 8 | We were just saying that today I said she 's gon na have flipping massive erm calf muscles when she 's older . |
| 9 | We were just saying that . |
| 10 | They were always broaching that subject , nationalization . |
| 11 | They were always to prefer that sandy , largely unregenerative soil to the cobbles and pavements they trod in the banlieue of Paris . |
| 12 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 13 | ‘ You were always doing that when you were little , ’ said Sam . |
| 14 | This was why Louisa Agnew had chosen the title of that text for her epitaph ; and if he and I were ever to unravel that secret , he said , we should get back to work . |
| 15 | There were more highlights that lovely April day . |
| 16 | However , I estimate that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day . |
| 17 | Their neighbours in the farm beyond were also raided that morning , and to get to that farm the police cars had to go past Mrs B 's front door . |
| 18 | The reporters were also told that ‘ evidence that fusion was taking place was the fact that in addition to heat [ Fleischmann and Pons had ] detected the production of neutrons , tritium and helium — the expected by-products of fusion reactions ’ . |
| 19 | This time last Saturday we were frantically doing that painting . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you were n't to expect that . ’ |
| 21 | And we were n't allowed that on . |
| 22 | Well on , on Saturday , I might go , but like , Sunday 's a good day and I 'll I 'll were n't gon na do the market , I were n't do that market , and I could go down on Sunday . |
| 23 | ‘ We got beaten today by the slow early pace which made her too keen and , in hindsight , a pacemaker would have helped , but we were n't to know that . |
| 24 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 25 | You see art that 's created by people who are killing themselves making it , and I always wonder how it would turn out if they were n't doing that . |
| 26 | He were n't doing that when I last called . |
| 27 | Yeah I could be going in the but you were n't told that . |
| 28 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 29 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |
| 30 | Although the Court of Appeal expressed no opinion on it , the court was clearly concerned that the employer might possibly be able to protect himself from the use of the employee 's skill and knowledge post employment by means of express provision if the employee were simply to sell that knowledge as a commodity ( ie not use it as a means to gain further employment ) . |