Example sentences of "was [prep] that [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during that time we all learned to play properly . |
| 2 | P-E had on occasions recommended clients to Lyn Brua , an American who had founded the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , and it was through that connection he decided to join the executive search industry . |
| 3 | It was like that feeling you get when the sun first hits you after breaking through the clouds . |
| 4 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 5 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
| 6 | There 's a resistor there that was in that tray I do n't know whether it 's fell out the board or |
| 7 | Who was in that side you bowled out ? |
| 8 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 9 | What was in that cake you gave me ? |
| 10 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 11 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 12 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 13 | It was over that period we started to climb . |
| 14 | As I say I did n't I thought the girls was plus that fact it was a lot of concentration for the spooling . |
| 15 | It was at that point we realised it was n't a very large bear . |
| 16 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 17 | It was at that point I began to grow nervous . |
| 18 | This was the first thought he had ever had of the commune , it was at that moment it first came to him , out on the terrace sitting beside Rufus under Hilbert 's umbrella , while the Vermstroy man hunted his quarry along the woodland streams and Mary pursued him with cries of protest . |
| 19 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 20 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 21 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 22 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |