Example sentences of "it was that [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ First of all why do n't you start by telling me just exactly what it was that upset you today ? ’ |
| 2 | It was that smell that on summer mornings most clearly brought back to her the lanes of her Shropshire childhood . |
| 3 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 4 | With the breeze as strong as it was that lead never looked enough . |
| 5 | I 'm sure it was that give him trouble . |
| 6 | It was that dream again — the one which had haunted her sleep almost every night for the past three weeks . |