Example sentences of "[is] [Wh det] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what it came from . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 3 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 4 | I know , it probably sounds sentimental but that 's what it felt like to me at the time . |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's what it felt like : a much-dreaded , long-overdue and sinisterly ritzy visit to the dick-doctor . |
| 6 | That 's what it boiled down to . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what it looked like , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 8 | And that 's what it looked like in nineteen seventy seven . |
| 9 | that 's what it amounted |
| 10 | Now workers control , that 's what it meant to me . |
| 11 | If I have n't got my eleven on a Thursday night , it meant overtime on Friday or Saturday morning , that 's what it meant . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what it sounded like , ’ agreed Mary . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what it sounded like to me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Thunder an' bleedin' lightning , that 's what it sounded like , ’ said Albert . |
| 15 | Serious stuff , that 's what it sounded like . ’ |
| 16 | I thought he meant to adopt me , because that 's what it sounded like . ’ |
| 17 | it sounds as if he was launching a little democrat er campaign for for the District Council Elections in May that 's what it sounded . |
| 18 | That 's what it sounded like |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what it said . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That 's what it said ? ’ said Dorcas . |
| 21 | That 's what it said in the |
| 22 | That 's what it said on his little card |
| 23 | Yeah that 's what it said , mm |
| 24 | That 's what it had said on the door . |
| 25 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 26 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 27 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |
| 29 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 30 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |