Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] [that] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were mostly things that had already reached the west . |
| 2 | They were just movies that did n't come together — poorly executed , I guess . |
| 3 | There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching , say , the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas . |
| 4 | But there were still things that needed to be said , explanations to be given , and in the end it was David who broke the silence . |
| 5 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 6 | Samuel Butler and others have pilloried the Victorian paterfamilias , and there were indeed families that suffered the tyranny of fathers using religion as one of their instruments of subjection . |
| 7 | There were indeed things that came out more vividly in the electrical recordings — the phrases about the ‘ Nachtigall und Grille ’ in Der Freischütz for instance . |
| 8 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 9 | er in Spain , because we reckoned it was only donkey that went in that went into the er burro as they call it , went into the went into the soup , you know with the beans and er er er various types of lentils and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ Before the war it was only Argentina that had football hooligans , ’ I said , ‘ poor people like that who had nothing to eat . ’ |
| 11 | In the period 1951–64 , of all the policy areas with which this book is concerned , it was probably education that saw the most innovation . |
| 12 | ‘ It was really Corsham that did it , ’ my mother said . |
| 13 | Yes , but er it was actually Mike that got it back up here , Mike and Grace , John 's first wife that started it up . |