Example sentences of "[noun sg] was that you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 2 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 3 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 4 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 5 | And erm the provivo proviso was that you had to pay it back though . |
| 6 | The other side of your comment was that you seemed to like these certain basic typefaces . |
| 7 | The reason was that you had little or no awareness of what a bad situation you were in . |
| 8 | O=only the the only thing was that you had n't got enough room to display everything that you could stock , is n't it . |
| 9 | And the beauty of hunting musk was that you did n't even need a gun , ’ He passed the emptied chillim over to Kalchu . |
| 10 | The problem was that you did n't know . |
| 11 | Erm in the er late eighteenth century the , the , the consensus was that you needed government for some spec specific purposes . |
| 12 | One of the never mentioned delights of the silent cinema was that you crunched and sucked to your heart 's content , annoying nobody but the piano player . |
| 13 | Yeah , I 'd like you to tell me about erm , what the house was that you left before you came to Harlow and why you came to Harlow ? |
| 14 | ‘ The fact was that you needed help to sort out your house the other day , yet you turned away the team of cleaners I hired , and why ? |
| 15 | The trouble with this sawing-halfway-through lark was that you had no control over where and when the thing was likely to break . |