Example sentences of "[pron] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I own it , I paid for it , but it would only go to someone that was old enough , mature enough . |
| 2 | I would want someone that was on my wavelength , roughly my age , preferably a supporter , and I would n't sign anything until I had at least a serious gentleman 's agreement that nothing could be issued without the artist 's agreement . |
| 3 | No , no ; it was n't someone that was here , it was some thing . |
| 4 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 5 | It was felt that it would rarely be necessary to call a computer expert , since in the majority of cases it would be sufficient to have someone that was familiar with the operation of the computer . |
| 6 | Such was the incline of the hills at this point and the arrangement of the trees that , looking straight ahead , nothing that was not absolutely pastoral could be could be seen . |
| 7 | They had seen something , they had heard something , they had smelt something , but all those various sensations added up to nothing solid : nothing that was known , for certain . |
| 8 | After he had shown you all he had in him , you would have seen nothing that was not gentlemanly , honest and clean . ’ |
| 9 | He had said and done nothing that was not polite , yet he left them with an inexplicably awkward feeling , as though something unpleasant had taken place . |
| 10 | In the course of 1921 the programmes of Labour and the Alliance contained nothing that was new . |
| 11 | It contains nothing that was not identifiable , and abundantly flagged , in the previous two volumes . |
| 12 | Nothing that was happening seemed to have anything to do with real life . |
| 13 | That was , that 's nothing that was n't . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing that was n't both banal and foreseeable … ’ |
| 15 | Everything that was ugly and nothing that was beautiful . |
| 16 | It did n't really happen overnight , I guess , but through the MainMan News , MainMan kind of mushroomed into this enormous spending machine that really got out of control and I think was a very destructive influence on everyone that was involved . ’ |
| 17 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 18 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 19 | I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling |
| 20 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 21 | And God and mercy me that was just have mercy on me . |
| 22 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 23 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 24 | Was it just me that was excited you said . |
| 25 | And to me that was the wrong way to go . |
| 26 | You told me that was Westgate last time I |
| 27 | Urgh urgh urgh urgh ooh ooh fuck me that was a |
| 28 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 29 | erm well , Li erm she , she goes well Lizzie told us that erm that your taxi was in front of hers , I went oh no no no , that was n't me that was someone else . |
| 30 | yeah it was alright , I think it was me that was being a bit , got a bit het up in case anybody had too much and started you know |