Example sentences of "was that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flea — or whatever variation in that species it was that crawled in him — had reached his elbow , and his arm below that pain was now completely numb , the skin of his hand wrinkled and flaky . |
| 2 | The move towards much more efficient methods of heating like convector heaters right on through to central heating , so that you could use more just that back parlour where the cooker was that kept the place warm . |
| 3 | It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case . |
| 4 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 5 | Perhaps the most significant contribution to the debate was that made by a member of the TBC board , the former Mwafrika editor Mr Bagdelleh . |
| 6 | If so , now is the time to decide exactly what it was that made the work so stale and uninteresting . |
| 7 | The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 . |
| 8 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 9 | Not to a Jewish God , not to a Christian one , not in Hebrew or English but in his native Polish , and to whatever power it was that made the stars shine , and the clouds drift , a lone wolf howl and an eagle fly free over wild country . |
| 10 | The best-known effort of this kind was that made by Torcy in 1712 to prepare a small number of young men for the French diplomatic service by the creation of a ‘ Political Academy ’ . |
| 11 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 12 | One important move was that made by the USSR . |
| 13 | She watched every video you ever made , trying to analyse just what it was that made you so special , so different from all the rest . ’ |
| 14 | I forget what it was that distracted me for a moment , but as I delayed , the water bounced the boat up and down and then straight against the quay , with my finger in between . |
| 15 | It danced in consort with whatever power it was that provoked her thought , and so energetically at times that , when a day 's work was over , she felt as weary as one of the dancing princesses from a fairy-tale , exhausted by their demon partners . |
| 16 | The last of the poor man 's gold rushes was that directed in 1896 to the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers , Alaska . |
| 17 | Well why was that directed only to women ? |
| 18 | It 's very difficult to put a finger on what it was that attracted me about him . |
| 19 | no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with |
| 20 | no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with |
| 21 | The trouble was that imprinted in Edward 's own mind was a charming array of creatures like a Noah 's Ark procession , from ant to man , that sprang from the illustration in a fatally misconceived nature book he had had himself as a child . |
| 22 | When the bundle of clothes hit the ground it was the dog who realised first that there was something inside , also broken and crumpled , and after the dog came the children , who revolved round the heap , fascinated , until one noticed the blood and began to scream , and adults arrived to remove them from whatever it was that lay on the concrete . |
| 23 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 24 | ‘ And what was that meant to prove ? ’ |
| 25 | It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation . |
| 26 | In the long run the most fundamental check to the power of the British monarchy was that imposed by the growth of increasingly organized and coherent political parties . |
| 27 | Kalugin 's Congress seat was that vacated by conservative hardliner Ivan Polozkov following his June election as first Secretary of the new Russian Federation Communist Party [ see p. 37539 ] . |
| 28 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 29 | For when I inquired who it was that had arrived , Miss Kenton continued past me , stating simply : ‘ A message if it is urgent , Mr Stevens . ’ |
| 30 | He shook her awake and explained that he planned to make his way back into the forest , skirting the area of rocks , to get a closer look at whatever it was that had caught his attention . |