Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] that at " in BNC.

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1 You were that at the most , ’ said Constance .
2 Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list .
3 Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed .
4 So it was that at 18 , from 1778–9 , William went to ‘ Lancashire-north-of-the-Sands ’ , and he loved it .
5 So it was that at 9 o'clock sharp the following morning , Aj , our warden in charge , arrived to show us what needed to be done .
6 Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar .
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