Example sentences of "that [pers pn] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now would you , I think it must be right that you were at the at five fifteen in the morning conducted by Sergeant . |
| 2 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 3 | This place , you called it ‘ The Big Garden ’ remote from the slums ; a waste land , crooked trees , and head-high grass , and easy to think ( Tarzan pictures ) that you were in the jungle . |
| 4 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 5 | I introduced your name in the conversation , said I was your Factor , told him that you were in the Lakes for pleasure but also with an eye to acquiring property , etc. , etc . |
| 6 | I heard that you were in the West Indies . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 8 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 9 | It came as a very pleasant surprise to me when I learned that you were in the habit of spending some time in this part of the world . |
| 10 | ‘ That you were from the police . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Coming in as an outsider probably helped as a bit of a catalyst but really it was the fact that we were at the bottom of the underwriting cycle and everyone was looking to improve results and build up market share . ’ |
| 12 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 13 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |
| 14 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 15 | Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . |
| 16 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 17 | He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent . |
| 18 | They got the feeling that we were on the ropes and I , I mean if |
| 19 | We have thought that we were on the brink of the final synthesis at least twice before . |
| 20 | This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs . |
| 21 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 22 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 23 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 25 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't aware that we were in the business of getting rid of inconvenient critics . |
| 27 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 28 | He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’ |
| 29 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
| 30 | By this time the " All Clear " sounded and there was a certain amount of light by which I could plainly see I was in what appeared to be an MT parking lot , When the rear gunner returned he reported that we were in the Manston MT yard . |