Example sentences of "that [pers pn] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed that you were breaking the law in some way . |
| 2 | I reckon she was calling collect and that you were accepting the charge . ’ |
| 3 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |
| 4 | My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it . |
| 5 | You might have to show the inspector the stamp to show that you were wearing the correct trousers — every now and then , you had to bring all your uniform in and all your uniform was an awful lot of uniform . |
| 6 | With regard to your order for the above tape , I understand from a conversation that I had with Sue Atkins on her return to this country that you were tracing the Agreement documents before returning these to us for signature by the Press and despatch of the tape . |
| 7 | ‘ You thought that you were doing the right thing . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales . |
| 9 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 10 | I told him that we were leaving the present trail at Reggane and going through In Salah and Tamanrasset . |
| 11 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 12 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 13 | Likewise , in the Second World War , the Germans , perhaps because of their complacency , never realised that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 14 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 15 | Little did those of us who were involved in that exercise know that we were laying the foundations for the industrial resurgence of Germany . |
| 16 | I was suddenly startled to see that we were entering the town of Knock . |
| 17 | Some , few years ago , we were told that we were entering the age of Aquarius . |
| 18 | He gave way generously to many hon. Members — and I am sure that they appreciated it — but I suspect that we were hearing the Minister 's swan song . |
| 19 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |
| 20 | I remember feeling really satisfied that we were changing the world . |
| 21 | They would scarcely need spies to discover that we were preparing the kind of fleet we would need to land an army across the Inner Sea . |
| 22 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 23 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 24 | I do n't think it 's as simple as that because at the time that we were doing the budget , we were doing it really in September , and most of those other cate categories of work , apart from like auto-offs reports and things , were n't having an impact . |
| 25 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 26 | Despite a decent map it had become obvious that we were approaching the high ridge of the mountains . |
| 27 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 28 | Already they knew that they were nearing the trees , for the burning Tower was low and far off . |
| 29 | And administrators who remembered the way their own adolescent energies and rivalries had been worked off in school sports tried unsuccessfully , but with remarkable persistence , to introduce football into the manyattas , believing that they were providing the moran with an attractive alternative to stock-raiding Major Clarence Buxton did not stop at football but — like an enterprising housemaster introducing an Outward Bound programme — organized lion hunts for his moran . |
| 30 | But by the time that they were completed the largest space of all was the nave , which might serve various purposes — as a shelter for great processions , as a substantial public hall and meeting place ; but above all provided space for visitors and lay worshippers . |