Example sentences of "that be [pron] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could that be what it meant ? |
| 2 | Would that be what I wanted to do ? |
| 3 | On the who ] e expectations were confined — doubtless realistically — to hoping for a ‘ good husband ’ : that is one who brought home a regular wage and with whom a relationship could be built upon mutual respect . |
| 4 | That is what we advocated . |
| 5 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 6 | That is what we went to see . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him . |
| 8 | ‘ And that is what we came for , in fact . ’ |
| 9 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
| 10 | And that is what we had to legally challenge in the courts . |
| 11 | That is what we wanted to achieve but how were we going to do it ? |
| 12 | That is what we started for . ’ |
| 13 | He said ‘ I did n't say it was right ’ he said , ‘ I said that is what they perceived ’ and he turned to the person next to him afterwards , he says ‘ well , that 's finished me for any promotion a job for promotion ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ That is what they told me that the letter said . ’ |
| 15 | If the parties actually used the word ‘ deposit , ’ then unless there is evidence to the contrary it will be assumed that that is what they meant , Elson v. Prices Tailors Ltd. ( 1963 Ch.D . ) . |
| 16 | That is what they said in the 1930s . |
| 17 | If the crowd in Woodford Square on that June evening were looking for an anti- imperialist martyr , that is what they got . |
| 18 | They had determined the sales , and that is what they had been asked to do . |
| 19 | There was no ruling that they should not talk to each other but that is what they believed . |
| 20 | Oh , but it is , that is what they joined the police for , to serve the community . |
| 21 | ‘ They may not be sending them abroad — ‘ That is what they promised when James enlisted . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That is what they promised Morag Mackintosh and big Mary , and Sheila Stewart , and Flora MacGregor . |
| 23 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 24 | ‘ That is what she came to say to you , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 25 | That is what she said . |
| 26 | and number two marriage marriage as Lucy said that is what she saw on Neighbours yesterday |
| 27 | That is what she had to do . |
| 28 | And that is what she did . |
| 29 | At least that is what I took out of them . |
| 30 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |