Example sentences of "[indef pn] 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 | now , you 're gon na get anybody with that , but let's suppose that you did have somebody that was really there we want that blacked out really |
| 19 | but er at the end of the day there has to be a purpose for it so unless you , you , you put it into action , then you , if you just read , then you 're in danger of having a bigger judgment than somebody that was ignorant |
| 20 | It was true , she knew , that dragons were huge and fierce and wild and mysterious ; but it was also true , as she also knew , that not everything that was huge and fierce and wild and mysterious was necessarily evil , necessarily wanted to kill you . |
| 21 | For various reasons I am unable to publish a transcript of everything that was said , although some salient points are to be found in the book . |
| 22 | Klepner had been doing everything that was expected of him acting as Mueller 's eyes and ears in Europe . |
| 23 | Tug brushed his thumb along the edge of the paper and thought of everything that was written on it . |
| 24 | From here , he could see all the machines , everything that was going on . |
| 25 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 26 | The collapse of a culture and the foresight of everything that was coming is here , certainly . |
| 27 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 28 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 29 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
| 30 | Everything that was easy for Victoria seemed hard for her and she never understood why . |