Example sentences of "that [was/were] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 2 | What they were doing might concern her , probably did concern her , but the decision , whatever it was , was theirs not hers ; whereas waiting here , feeling the coolness beneath her hands and the softness of the April sun about her face , and being content to feel these delightful sensations flowing through her and to want nothing more — that was something that depended on her and on no on else . |
| 3 | I ca n't say I 'm doing a Page-type thing in the studio , but he was someone who was able to make very soulful records , and that was something that generated excitement in me at the time . |
| 4 | But I , I did n't know whether that was something that you were looking for , something more local . |
| 5 | And then again , ignorance er , at what she should subsequently have done er , then took over because she did n't realise that by having had er made contact with an individual erm it was necessary for her to report the matter to the police and she just did n't realise that that was something that she should have done . |
| 6 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
| 7 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 8 | My bed , fine , but my life … that was something that had always been untouchable , and , as far as I was concerned , always would be . |
| 9 | I think that was something that most people never achieve in a lifetime — and I feel quite ecstatically kn … tired , ’ he substituted with a grin . |
| 10 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 11 | I mean my mood so affected the way the class was but that was something that I did n't think could be helped at all … and the difference was amazing you know , when you 're feeling OK and you 're being relaxed . |
| 12 | At least that was something that was done out with the normal course of duty , so like I think . |
| 13 | That was something that stuck in my mind mm . |
| 14 | And that was something that went on all year |
| 15 | That was something that Boaz did , there when Ruth was lying at his feet . |
| 16 | That was something that was foisted upon him . |
| 17 | We considered that was one that could be afforded . |
| 18 | That was them as well . ’ |
| 19 | Well , that was me as I toured Central Park , Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building . |
| 20 | That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each . |
| 21 | ‘ That was me when I was twenty-five , ’ said Chaman . |
| 22 | ‘ That was us when we all worked in the shop , afore the War . ’ |
| 23 | He later realized that , as a child , Michael Ingram had been in The Little Beggars , a radio play that was his and Caryl Brahms 's first script to be performed , starring Alec McCowen , with David Hemmings as the child lead . |
| 24 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 25 | And that was it before we left . |
| 26 | Ca n't remember if you told me not to mention it to you or not that was it that it was supposed to be a private conversation , I ca n't remember . |
| 27 | I was sure that was it when the van stopped , I think that was why I was sick . |
| 28 | Well , that was it and I was in a daze . |
| 29 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 30 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |