Example sentences of "that was [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 2 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 4 | That was why Miss Tuckey 's file came across my desk . ’ |
| 5 | Handloom weaving was an important cottage industry at the time and Charles was sent to Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to learn the trade ; that was why Robert Burns referred to him as ‘ Wabster ( weaver ) Charlie ’ in the poem Epistle to James Tennant . |
| 6 | Perhaps that was why de Gaulle 's memoirs of the period , Memoirs of Hope , de-dramatized the whole affair , reducing it to a futile conflict over the essentially nineteenth-century problem of colonial domination , irrelevant to the real concerns of France in the contemporary era . |
| 7 | I think that was why Uncle Hamish had been so delighted when I 'd come to stay with the family , and also — perhaps — why he was in no hurry to help effect a reconciliation between me and my father . |
| 8 | That was when Silvio Berlusconi , the chairman of Fininvest ( which owns a chunk of the Italian economy ) , one of the wealthiest men in the country and a true Milanese , took over the team in order to challenge Gianni Agnelli 's Juventus , of Turin . |
| 9 | That was when Frank Gray came in for me . |
| 10 | That was when Peter Morgenstern became Peter Morgan . |
| 11 | Devonian Bobby Dawson — they must have fertile pastures down there , for that was where Roger Twose and Mark Lathwell came from — is a distinct prospect . |
| 12 | That was where Mrs MacDonald ( oil ) lived and she knew two wealthy doctors there already . |
| 13 | That was where Mr Singleton came in . |
| 14 | They were like a map of Europe , and that was where James Halden was enjoying a luxurious , carefree holiday with his wife . |
| 15 | And we rather assume that item 3 immediately under that was again F G B and not S D G , because nobody could work out what S D G stands for . |
| 16 | Erm but that was just group leader stuff really . |
| 17 | Oh that was n't shoulder length . |
| 18 | That was n't Ted Heath 's style at all . |
| 19 | Anyway , that was n't Frensham earth I saw , not local . ’ |
| 20 | That was how Mr Hellyer found them . |