Example sentences of "[pron] that [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 2 | People I have asked tell me that this faith was austere and fanatical , that many of its adherents gave as good as any of its martyrs got . |
| 3 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 4 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 5 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 6 | Poole told me that some people were also shocked because John , in his role as the Devil , ‘ disguised himself as a girl in point shoes , a tutu and a blonde wig , with his devil 's horns showing through ’ . |
| 7 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 8 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |
| 9 | Mr Relf , present Superintendent , informed me that these works were the first of the Mid Kent Co. and this was " where it all began " . |
| 10 | Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families . |
| 11 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 12 | This decided them that more work was needed to verify whether there was indeed fusion , and so they began to plan out a detailed strategy and designed an experiment — ‘ scaling it ’ in the sense that Fleischmann had learned in his days at Imperial College . |
| 13 | He told himself that all men were cowards when it came to a showdown with a woman . |
| 14 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 15 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 16 | Further to the query by Mr P. Ridgley of Oldham regarding copal varnish ( WW/June 91/p.557 ) , we would inform you that copal varnishes were manufactured from fossilised resins , mainly obtained from the Congo . |
| 17 | He appears before the court for the first time , he 's of previous good character and erm and er has never been in trouble with the courts before and er Madam I 'm going to suggest to you that this incident was brought about not by any fault of his own , but , but by his girlfriend and her behaviour towards him . |
| 18 | ( I can assure you that this book was not written straight through from beginning to end ! ) |
| 19 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 20 | As such , it was not something that many people were particularly upset about . |
| 21 | Rank 's argument that he needed the studios , the cinemas and the distribution network if he was to ensure that his films performed in foreign markets was , therefore , one that relevant officials were predisposed to accept . |
| 22 | There is no doubt whatsoever that this expansionism was a deliberate and carefully controlled policy ; Charles did not fight defensive or reluctant wars . |
| 23 | It need not surprise anybody that Victorian cities were unhealthy places . |
| 24 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 25 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
| 26 | Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent . |
| 27 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 28 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 29 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 30 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |