Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 2 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 3 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 5 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 6 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 7 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 8 | But when it was found that I was twenty days short of being twenty-one years older than Richard , legal adoption was ruled out . |
| 9 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 10 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 11 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 12 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 13 | So eager was she to experience another session of past-life regression that she was fifteen minutes early for her appointment ! |
| 14 | That was doubly endorsed for her as a feeling of nausea entered the fray of ragged nerves , and she realised that she was fifteen minutes early . |
| 15 | It was so deep this dislocation , this feeling that she was two people . |
| 16 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 17 | She had completely changed her views and now declared that she was sure war was imminent . |
| 18 | A beautiful witch , Carrie thought , and her heart began to thump so hard that she was sure Hepzibah must hear it . |
| 19 | Usually she got through cutting it up by fantasizing that she was Christian Barnard saving the life of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud . |
| 20 | His strong belief that she was withholding things from him did , after all , have some basis in fact . |
| 21 | Daniel felt that she was willing Peter to respond , to show himself bruised and in need of comforting , to expose his wound so that it might be healed . |
| 22 | With a smile at Alice of real gratitude , neighbourliness , she said that she was glad Alice was there , glad that decent people were in poor No. 43 at last . |
| 23 | Franca , wondering who she was , had decided that she was some sort of secretary or servant of Marcus , like the conjuror 's assistant . |
| 24 | Even Nelson 's invitation was being misconstrued as more evidence that she was some sort of siren who enjoyed luring men with her seductive powers . |
| 25 | There was another reason which Marama did n't reveal , until the day before he was due to sail , when she told the painter that she was three months pregnant . |
| 26 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 27 | She explained that she was left cold by Harrelson — her co-star along with Robert Redford in the forthcoming Indecent Proposal — because he is a close friend of her husband Bruce Willis . |
| 28 | ( If you are 5 feet 4 inches , there is no point in wishing that you were six inches taller . ) |
| 29 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 30 | ‘ Would you say that you were first rate or second rate ? ’ |