Example sentences of "was that [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest case was that put forward by Murray Copland in the 1960s , suggesting , simply , that in modern editorial terms inverted commas should be put around these lines so that we see that in these lines the Shipman is imitating ( a ) woman . |
| 2 | What 's that word , who was that put that word up that was it you Phillip ? |
| 3 | was that keep |
| 4 | ‘ First of all why do n't you start by telling me just exactly what it was that upset you today ? ’ |
| 5 | Another reason was that Stop The Clause was a single-issue campaign , while Thatcherite policy pushed through a series of oppressive laws on a number of fronts , attacking homosexual women and men , but also black people , the unemployed , working women , disabled people and so on . |
| 6 | It was that smell that on summer mornings most clearly brought back to her the lanes of her Shropshire childhood . |
| 7 | It was that dream again — the one which had haunted her sleep almost every night for the past three weeks . |
| 8 | With the breeze as strong as it was that lead never looked enough . |
| 9 | Yeah that kind of thing I mean how was that wen you first |
| 10 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 11 | And nowhere was that place just out of reach |
| 12 | I 'm sure it was that give him trouble . |
| 13 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 14 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |