Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [indef pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 2 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 3 | M. Lheureux plies Emma with a foretaste of false comfort : he tells her consoling stories of lost dogs which have returned to their masters despite great distances ; why , there was even one that made it all the way back to Paris from Constantinople . |
| 4 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 5 | It was the only one I knew this morning like , so fifty miles an hour he said to me He said to me , he said to me turn left at the roundabout there was only one that was marked on the floor , only one an actual erm roundabout with concrete and I drove straight over it |
| 6 | ‘ I can see that , but I do n't think there was ever anything that was obviously not playable by a human ! |
| 7 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 8 | ‘ They never made me go to auditions — it was just something that came up . |
| 9 | It was just something that happened . |
| 10 | It was just something that happened . |
| 11 | It was just something that someone said . |
| 12 | It was just something that sometimes happened . |
| 13 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 14 | It was just something that must be endured . |
| 15 | it was just everything that you heard was |
| 16 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 17 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 18 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 19 | I had never heard of it before , but it was certainly something that I would look out for in the future with much apprehension . |
| 20 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 21 | Yes I I do n't really want to respond to that other than to say that Bond End is d it 's still an extremely important consideration , it 's in the conservation area , it 's an important part of Knaresborough and it was obviously something that members had in mind when they they made their decision on on the relative merits . |