Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the end of the last act I was swearing that this was the most marvellous Coriolanus in every conceivable way that I should ever hope to see , ’ wrote T. C. Worsley in the Financial Times . |
| 2 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 3 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 4 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 5 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 6 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 7 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 8 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 9 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 10 | I was informed that this was the third ’ clip out ’ he had had during the night on that rod , the other two having been either aborted or missed . |
| 11 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 12 | Yeah , I was forgetting that that was that was calculated on the two . |
| 13 | Cos I was talking to Lilian , she was thinking that each year she 'd be given an update it should be a five year plan . |
| 14 | And she was determined that this would not happen . |
| 15 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 16 | ‘ No doubt , ’ murmured Dr Neil , who was finding that this interchange , far from dowsing lust , was fuelling it , so that he had a terrible desire to fall on his knees before his skivvy , crying , ‘ Be mine , McAllister , be mine , immediately , ’ like a hero , or perhaps a villain , in a stage melodrama . |
| 17 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 18 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 19 | In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation . |
| 20 | It was explained that these accounts would be used in a later practical class . |
| 21 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 22 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 23 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 24 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 25 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 26 | It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school . |
| 27 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 28 | In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time . |
| 29 | This belief had been reinforced by the experiences of 1866 and 1870 ; it was assumed that these showed the future pattern of warfare . |
| 30 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |