Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carolyn noticed that everyone was watching Bryony , and Bryony smiled and threaded the ear-rings through the holes in her ears , and they must all have a look and comment . |
| 2 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 3 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 4 | ‘ I see , ’ he said when he learned that I was meeting Edward . |
| 5 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 6 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 7 | ‘ If the Chief Constable knew that I was seeing Patrick , all hell would break loose . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Sam found out that I was seeing Paula . |
| 9 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 10 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 12 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
| 13 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 14 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 15 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 16 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 17 | I was really excited , believing that I was going places . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told them that I was fighting Franco and he 's a Fascist the same as Hitler , but once these fellows get an idea in their heads they just do n't listen . ’ |
| 19 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 20 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 21 | It appeared on the day that I was answering questions on transport on the floor of the House and there was a question on the future of railway services on the order paper . |
| 22 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 23 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
| 24 | I told Karen that I was visiting factories and offices in the Oxford area and sounding out the management with a view to future co-operation , but in fact my mornings were spent driving aimlessly around the highways and byways of rural Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | But sometimes there was an uneasy undercurrent to disturb the tranquillity — including , of course , the feeling that I was marking time while great and stirring events were in the offing — war , for instance . |
| 26 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 27 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 28 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 29 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 30 | Alida Thorne took her tea cup and felt better now that someone was taking charge , running the immediate affairs of the house . |