Example sentences of "[unc] that was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er that was all the particulars I think Miss ever got for him . |
| 2 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 3 | but er that was all in six weeks it 's beautiful |
| 4 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 5 | Erm but er that was this boy 's job and then he used to er you know , scrub the tables in the rest room and of course boil the water first thing in the morning . |
| 6 | no that was er that was another example of peculiar dates in , in , in references and er stuff like |
| 7 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 8 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 9 | Oh er now th that was that was that was pretty poor , er probably employed in the co-op in those days , would would have attracted er er er a fourteen shillings , er nearly half as much again . |
| 10 | To sell it of course , but erm that was another facet of it . |
| 11 | No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run . |