Example sentences of "that [was/were] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One bewildered donkey was enough to block off a street — and that was without any help from Owen . |
| 2 | I 'm not quite sure , that was for some reason . |
| 3 | And the horse it came up with this long wooden handle , I do n't know whether it was three or four , I ca n't remember , but that was for some couchgrass . |
| 4 | The worker paid his contribution and that was for own benefit . |
| 5 | ‘ Er … you have n't seen a blue Honda … er , that was on this corner earlier , have you officer ? ’ we asked levelly . |
| 6 | That was at that catalogue . |
| 7 | That was at this end one that er Josie was talking about today . |
| 8 | Although Garvin was shown as his formal superior in terms of the office organization chart , that was to some extent a convenient fiction and the Mamur Zapt had his own lines of communication to the powers that were . |
| 9 | That was in all sorts of trouble , apparently . |
| 10 | That was , that was in that union . |
| 11 | And mother was the last that was in that hearse . |
| 12 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 13 | ‘ But that was in another country . ’ |
| 14 | Fornication ; but that was in another country , |
| 15 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 16 | that was in this week 's and it was a stag I have n't got this week 's , not out today |
| 17 | You ca n't imagine how bold that was in those days . |
| 18 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 19 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 20 | But this er w this this feeling of erm not being respected , w do you think in that was in any sense a an important motivation for just sticking it out amongst the older men ? |
| 21 | Also , I have to mention the Mravinsky fortissimo , too — that was unlike any other ; the orchestral range of dynamics was unbelievable . |