Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was when they found the box . |
| 2 | This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not . |
| 4 | But that was why as I understood it , that was why I wanted the sealer . |
| 5 | Franco knew that Yagüe would show the enemy no mercy ; that was why he had deployed Yagüe with the Legion in Asturias , in 1934 , and that was why he repeated the tactic in 1936 . |
| 6 | That was why he preferred the violence — it showed she felt something for him . |
| 7 | ‘ That was why he dressed the way he did , always immaculate . ’ |
| 8 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |
| 9 | That was when they had the argument . |
| 10 | That was when they heard the sound of breaking glass . |
| 11 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 12 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 13 | That was when I scraped the fender on a protruding lump of rock . |
| 14 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 15 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 16 | That was when she saw the diary . |
| 17 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 19 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 20 | I did n't find out he was the artist who 'd done all of the paintings until the end of the conversation and that was basically what ended the conversation : I just ran off ! |
| 21 | The horse would walk up that and that was how they marked the boundaries . |
| 22 | Climbing from his car , Curtis surveyed the carnage wreaked by his enemy — for that was how he regarded the Prophet now — his enemy . |