Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still drowsy and warm from sleep , she lay thinking of Johnny Latimer and whether Time or the house ( for she could not decide which it was that played the tricks and pulled the strings ) would let him come back to her again . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 4 | Belinda flinched as she saw who it was that had come out of the lift and addressed her . |
| 5 | All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail . |
| 6 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 7 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 8 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 9 | Whoever it was that invented the phrase ‘ architectural antiques ’ is no friend of mine . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
| 12 | Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group . |
| 13 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 14 | explain what there was that went on . |
| 15 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 16 | IT IS the Keats time of year again , when inefficiently brainwashed poetasters grope about trying to remember whatever it was that came after the ‘ mellow fruitfulness ’ bit . |
| 17 | But in her mother 's kiss she had learned something of the importance of whatever it was that Rachel had to do . |
| 18 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 19 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
| 20 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I too would gladly have exercised these master-skills , but there was one essential ingredient I lacked : Charlie 's strong will and his massively forceful desire to possess whatever it was that took his fancy . |
| 23 | Viewers , when presented with a shot in which the subject is seen looking at something off the screen , will assume that the next shot will show whatever it was that the person was looking at . |
| 24 | ‘ Her doctor feels that if he could get her to face up to whatever it was that had such a damaging effect on her as a young child , then she would … well , take a grip on life again , see Harry in a different light , enjoy him , in fact , instead of escaping into illness as a way out of all her responsibilities . ’ |
| 25 | Whatever it was that Bob Dylan , the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had done , a lot of black artists wanted the freedom to follow . |
| 26 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 27 | Panic , that was the first reaction to whatever it was that had just happened . |
| 28 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 29 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 30 | It seemed Gran too sensed there was no way of stopping whatever it was that had begun … ’ |