Example sentences of "[pron] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went straight out and broke a window , I was that impressed … ’ |
| 2 | By my first weekend at the Centre I was that very dangerous creature , one worse than a missionary , a convert . |
| 3 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 4 | I am sure that he was as pleased as I was that the Parliamentary Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon ( Mr. Curry ) , spent some time last week promoting British lamb in the middle of France . |
| 5 | Thank you for secondly I was that the decision now is left to the the District Council er have you not discuss some parts of elements er could be addressed in the short term . |
| 6 | Just possible that you standard because he obviously seemed to think that I was that I had some great possible qualities but |
| 7 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 8 | I was that knacked not her , bright as a button , she still did n't sleep that bloody night , she 's a swine , Linda was n't very old when Pam was born was she ? |
| 9 | I was that shocked I could n't he myself ! |
| 10 | I was that because |
| 11 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 12 | This was quickly followed by a spate of bid rumours , the most sensational of which was that Adia , the big Swiss-based recruitment consultant , was about to launch a takeover bid . |
| 13 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |
| 14 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 15 | He was really loved , even for his eccentricity , which was that he would never allow alcohol in any form to come into our walls . |
| 16 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 17 | His Honour Judge Morrell did not rule on the bank 's main contention , which was that since a guarantee card guarantees cheques and a forged cheque is not in fact a cheque , the card is of no significance at all in a transaction if the signature on the cheque is forged , though this is obviously an alternative approach . |
| 18 | There must be a total retrieval now , the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams . |
| 19 | Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel . |
| 20 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange recommends a ‘ Neighbourhood Advertising Plan ’ , the essence of which was that every manager would define ‘ the radius or zone ’ from which his ‘ logical business ’ was secured and that he should then proceed to go directly to the individuals whose patronage he could reasonably expect . |
| 21 | This enabled him to test his original hypothesis , which was that an increase in work specialization and the division of labour is linked to the change from mechanical to organic solidarity . |
| 22 | On closer inspection there was quite a muddle between ‘ Chinese imperialism ’ and ‘ Vietminh military operations ’ , but it seems to have been an elementary mistake to base the assessment entirely on capability rather than intention , which the paper admitted , and was an extraordinary foundation for Rusk 's conclusion which was that : ‘ Above all , we can not afford to jeopardise the considerable measure of success our policy has already had in Indo-China by neglecting to provide the proper maintenance for our investment . ’ |
| 23 | He concealed his real criticism , which was that the ‘ Peace with Honour ’ statement was a piece of emotional exhibitionism , and as a result his speech lacked any real impact . |
| 24 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 25 | He was seeing Comrade Andrew , as Alice knew , for she , too , visited Comrade Andrew who seemed to want to talk about Bert , making no secret of his plan for him , which was that he should follow the path of job , flat , security and respectability . |
| 26 | Jill thought a moment then announced her decision , which was that she agreed to keep the secret provided Jennifer riddled out the cinders every morning from then on , instead of taking it in turns . |
| 27 | In his reply on 2 August [ KP 6 ] Eden put the second view , which was that it was essential to return Soviet prisoners to the Soviet Union , because otherwise the Soviet authorities might make difficulties over the large number of British and allied Prisoners of War in those parts of Europe which would be liberated by the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 29 | He could not say what he just thought , which was that she should be afraid of that place now . |
| 30 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |