Example sentences of "that [coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 There was nothing that could be used for a cradle so obviously she intended keeping it in bed with her , but Sarah had heard tales of babies being smothered like that and she was surprisingly anxious that her newly expected brother or sister would n't end up that way .
2 So that we know we 've got to cover that and it was just er Caroline , Karen 's suggestions were in the external order , was that we , we should draw up some kind of plan , with dates as to say right , okay , we 're gon na do the work first .
3 He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry .
4 And in a worse position than because the North they 've never done any deals , never seen anybody , national accounts , done nothing in that area in terms of deals and negotiations and things like that and it was only six months ago that where could actually find out he could do deals .
5 The Commission is with us on that and it was especially firm with Italy at the most recent informal Internal Market Council about its poor state of implementation .
6 And we had , we had been invited to take part in that and it was really good publicity and , it was n't even mentioned on on the channel that showed those th those games !
7 Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout .
8 He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again .
9 They cheered a little louder for the home side but there is nothing wrong with that and I was just delighted to be a part of it all .
10 So I 'm a little tired of that and I was very happy to hear that we were going to be exchanging ideas about how we can go forward .
11 Then between that and I was never short of sweets , during the war .
12 My father was maybe in once or twice when I was a boy and he was maybe buying a horse and that but he was very seldom out of the island that I mind .
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