Example sentences of "that was [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was before they met Glenda . |
| 2 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 3 | Terribly wrong , and that was before they had even left England ! |
| 4 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 5 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 6 | That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child . |
| 7 | ‘ That was before we found her handbag , ’ said Tim . |
| 8 | That was before we found . |
| 9 | and that was before we bought the petrol this morning . |
| 10 | I know , that was before I 'd started those . |
| 11 | ‘ That was before I met Mother Clare , and anyway I do n't know where I am going . ’ |
| 12 | But that was before I met you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Madame Gebrec , I know I said I would help you , but that was before I understood what you wanted of me . |
| 14 | That was before I knew you . |
| 15 | ‘ I know I did , but that was before I knew the labels were typed on Dick Tavett 's typewriter and that the bags matched those in the Post 's stationery stockroom . ’ |
| 16 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 17 | That was before I got married , of course . ’ |
| 18 | That was before I came here , of course . ’ |
| 19 | That was before you got married , was it ? |
| 20 | Well that was before you coped out for him were n't it ? |
| 21 | But that was before she 'd known the traumas that lay in store for her . |
| 22 | That was before she met him . |
| 23 | That was before she got cross with me about her underclothes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My name is Fa … — hmn , ’ she coughed to cover her first mistake — and that was before she got started ! |
| 25 | That was before she chose you , so she may have told you more than she intended . ’ |
| 26 | Of course , that was before she had killed him . |
| 27 | But that was before she had met Nathan Bryce , when this complex , attractive , abrasive man was still simply a name and a photograph in a gossip column . |
| 28 | But that was before she had taught herself to hate him . |
| 29 | But that was before she took her baby brother to Wickham Common . |
| 30 | ‘ That was before she moved back to Italy , she knew she was ill and went back to die . ’ |