Example sentences of "that was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the argument that my reformers made against that was simply that where you have a huge number of people who are desperate for jobs , there 's no level below which the wages may not fall , under a free market system . |
| 2 | My mother was wild at the time , but that was mostly because when Denise 's family came to tea they used to lick the neck of the salad cream bottle . ’ |
| 3 | It was next , it was next to H & T Hornes and erm I , I think they used to do the casting there and then all the castings had to come into , for us to file and it was hard work but er there was erm a big bell to tell us when to stop work and that was outside and there was a big notice in the department , wait for the bell or |
| 4 | Well that was here and Saint Gregory 's you see . |
| 5 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 6 | That was even before they 'd asked him what qualifications he 'd got . |
| 7 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 8 | Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time . |
| 9 | That was just before we started to be And we I finished up and me twenty first birthday in a place called and that was in Belgium but in between . |
| 10 | That was just before his lips came crushing down , marauding over her own with all the self-assurance of a pirate king . |
| 11 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 12 | perhaps that was just because I 'd got up . |
| 13 | True , they had behaved coldly to her afterwards but that was probably because they were envious of the success of her tea parties , to which she did not always feel obliged to invite them … |
| 14 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 15 | Paige found herself quite hungry , but that was probably because she 'd eaten very little the night before . |
| 16 | Louise and Miriam had been doing their work with set faces and compressed lips but that was doubtless because of the smell of the insects which was frightful . |
| 17 | Thank goodness he had never rushed into anything-though that was partly because he had never found the woman he wanted to rush into anything with . |
| 18 | ‘ That was partly because you could n't hold on given scenes in the way you would normally do . |
| 19 | Yes , that , that was almost that you have a complex about it . |
| 20 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 21 | If you thought that was less than perfectly thought-out and organised , wait until you see what job evaluation and performance-related have in store for all of us ( see page 20 ) . |
| 22 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 23 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |
| 24 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |
| 25 | and er so there 's a landmark now , I do n't think tha that was there when I was there . |
| 26 | What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ? |
| 27 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 28 | That that was before and look at it now . |
| 29 | That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |