Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 32 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 33 | I think if one looks at life and says : ‘ If I was doing that job , what are the conditions I would like to work in ? ’ , and then put them into operation , people will probably think it 's about right . |
| 34 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 35 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 36 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 37 | ‘ She were born that way . |
| 38 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 39 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 40 | Thirty five people who were killed that day and remember that on Yorkshire television it 's been established that there were and this is something you got ta over , people like you had got the ear of the Special Branch and murky people in the establishment of the |
| 41 | Cowley 's meeting with the Commissioner had been successful : CI5 were fully invested with the authority to both guard Stone 's family , and seek out the nature of the person or persons unknown who were harassing that family . |
| 42 | Autumn 1945 in Cardiff High School was a season of intensive preparation for a small group of us who were to make that attempt . |
| 43 | You were telling that Judy , Julie . |
| 44 | ‘ You were robbing that jeweller 's , in case you 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 45 | If you were to ask that man what is more important under Heaven — his public achievements or the death of that person — his answer would not be the majority one , the public one , but the private and particular one . |
| 46 | If you were to let that iron cool , what form of iron would you actually have ? |
| 47 | You 'll not be surprised to find that in terms of national policy , I would have thought that was very clear if you were given that choice , what the policy should be . |
| 48 | I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well |
| 49 | ‘ Well , we certainly had them when you were cleaning that playbill of William as Lear at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden … ’ |
| 50 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 51 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 52 | You were overwrought that night and after all , we do owe your life to Sarah . ’ |
| 53 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 54 | She was thinking that rejection brought out the best in Bert . |
| 55 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 56 | yeah yeah well I know she was getting that way towards Christmas . |
| 57 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 58 | All at once she was wishing that Desmond was with her . |
| 59 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |
| 60 | She was hurrying that morning . |