Example sentences of "and that was [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was all copper , and I had to clean that every morning with a kind of paste ; and to do all the stairs and landings , and the rooms downstairs . |
| 2 | And that was all d'Alembord prayed for at this moment , that Ford would learn success fast and thus calm his worried fears . |
| 3 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |
| 4 | The only concrete information I had , and that was more sand than cement , was from Froggy Davies 's sister . |
| 5 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 6 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 7 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 8 | I dated Courtney Love for a while and that was another education on how people perceive . |
| 9 | And that was another detail making me uneasy . |
| 10 | ‘ And that was another thing , ’ said Williams . |
| 11 | ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … . |
| 12 | And that was another thing that was troubling her . |
| 13 | And that was another source of stuff . |
| 14 | You said so yourself when you came in — and that was some hours ago . ’ |