Example sentences of "that [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work on subliminal learning does n't work Okay , Brown suggests that you bring a c wardrobe of cuddly toys and mementoes and things like that that were in the room when you were learning , context dependent learning . |
| 2 | Until the the play centre was actually opened and that was towards the end of the life of the flats really . |
| 3 | So we did it all the hard way then , and also the garden you see , we 're supposed to grow all our vegetables in the garden , that was outside the cottage , then there was the hedge and the field , and there was a gap down there . |
| 4 | Aye , that was during the wartime , aye aye . |
| 5 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 6 | There are road works at Cheavely interchange junction 13 of the M4 and that is gon na cause just a little bit of delay , it was a bit chock-a-block earlier er that was during the rush-hour but it should be easing up . |
| 7 | That was during the war time , that was about nineteen forty one I should say , when they started doing the concrete roads . |
| 8 | That was during the war years |
| 9 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 10 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 11 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 12 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 13 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe they did n't think that was worth a car . ’ |
| 15 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 16 | Two site foremen from Coventry had H19 and H20 ‘ front ’ , but that was across the aisle . |
| 17 | Yes and they were , he was playing with his toys and his bricks and he was , in the evening you were feeling a bit sick sometimes with it was pretty rough crossing , er that was across the channel . |
| 18 | Well you used to took er take one length bet from one s er erm er straw up to the other , that was about a yard . |
| 19 | That was about a human . |
| 20 | A blonde , blue-eyed doll for him to play with ; that was about the size of it . |
| 21 | That was about the chances of Britain producing any sort of major champion , let alone a world champion . |
| 22 | Keep one end dry and the other end wet , my father advised me , and that was about the measure of it . |
| 23 | Oh , that was about the sort of price I was thinking of . |
| 24 | Oh that was about the lot er we had . |
| 25 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 26 | Erm er that that was for a B B C computer . |
| 27 | Oh no no no , there was no such , there was there was distemper as it was called , er not like emulsion is today , there was this distemper that was called but er oh no that was that was for the pigsty the distemper was , whitewash . |
| 28 | That was for the sons and daughters of richer families like her Pascoe cousins whose father , Uncle Harry , was making his fortune privateering and could afford to pay for Cousin Tristram to go across the water to Fowey every morning and attend Mr Carew 's new grammar school . |
| 29 | Yes , that was for the council election . |
| 30 | Maybe that was for the cat , too . |