Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 3 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |
| 4 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 5 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 6 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 7 | One item on lease is a new in-house laundry which was acquired when high bedroom occupancy was anticipate and its was though that the hire cost of linen would be more expensive . |
| 8 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 9 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 10 | When ( the HoD ) was writing the self-appraisal we were n't that involved to be honest . |
| 11 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes I was , but we were never that close . |
| 13 | One was simply that there were n't enough of them , particularly at C : |
| 14 | I was told the rules , there were not that many and most were sensible . |
| 15 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 16 | I was involved in writing the first two drafts of the film , but by the sixth draft there were n't that many of my ideas left . |
| 17 | ‘ Though of course there was also that long leave he had towards the end of the war . ’ |
| 18 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 19 | There was only that one with the bit of enamel chipped off . |
| 20 | I do n't think there was really that many |
| 21 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 22 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 23 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 24 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 25 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 26 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 27 | He said on the old shillings I want Neil 's bed but it were n't that cos he 's bit of a fun to , you know , you know |
| 28 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 29 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 30 | I thought she 'd dried it , and she said , oh , I 'm just gon na put this washing on radiators , and then it , it were then that er it made me think , well , what done with her dryer . |