Example sentences of "that was [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ That was before we found her handbag , ’ said Tim .
2	But that was before I met you . ’
3	‘ Madame Gebrec , I know I said I would help you , but that was before I understood what you wanted of me .
4	That was before I knew you .
5	That was before she met him .
6	That was before she chose you , so she may have told you more than she intended . ’
7	But that was before she took her baby brother to Wickham Common .
8	That was before he told you the news ? ’
9	But that was before he lost his family .
10	That was after she hit me !
11	Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use .
12	That was until he saw what was on the front page .
13	But that was until she met her Johnny ( and that was his christian name ) .
14	no I did n't , I never liked it , whether that was because I knew we were n't gon na be there , or , you know , I just , I was only there six months
15	He recalled : ‘ I certainly gave two very bad TV interviews that gave the impression that things were all wrong , all uptight , but that was because I felt it necessary to defend the players . ’
16	That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow .
17	It was soy , of course , not meat , that formed the filling inside the thin shells of dough , but that was as he wished it .
18	Even though that was as you put it , the obvious place for .

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