Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 2 | It was noticeable , among other things , that she was drinking faster than anybody else . |
| 3 | Once in the flat , with Brian having departed promising to see what he could do about an early appointment with Dr Shalcross , she tried to tell herself that she was feeling better , that this break was all she needed , that coming to London was the answer to any temporary difficulty . |
| 4 | But he was beaming at her innocently , glad to see that she was feeling better . |
| 5 | A recent independent poll on exactly that matter showed that already , within the first year , a significant number of patients of general practitioners recognised that they were getting better services than a year previously . |
| 6 | A week after Miss Halford was re-suspended the police authority announced that it was bringing further disciplinary charges against her , following allegations that she made abusive late-night telephone calls to Mr Sharples , another senior officer and two members of the authority . |
| 7 | That it was becoming darker , more turbid as time went on , disturbed her . |
| 8 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 9 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 10 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 11 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |