Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [that] [adj] " 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 | I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep , and he seemed to go into hiding . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 9 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 12 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 13 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 14 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Among the films I brought was that of the Scharnhorst and when its showing time was listed in the ship 's paper , I was informed that one of the passengers , a Captain Danckwerts , had been the Scharnhorst 's wartime assistant navigating officer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 20 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 21 | Yeah , I was forgetting that that was that was calculated on the two . |
| 22 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 23 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And she was determined that this would not happen . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was informed that unpaid and voluntary effort was not sanctioned by the Poor Law Board . |
| 28 | She was told that two of her three children were together in one foster home , but was given no information as to where in Scotland they were . |
| 29 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 30 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |