Example sentences of "that [adj] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again , ignorance er , at what she should subsequently have done er , then took over because she did n't realise that by having had er made contact with an individual erm it was necessary for her to report the matter to the police and she just did n't realise that that was something that she should have done . |
| 2 | They laughed together , and as she locked up behind the girl Folly could n't help realising that that was something else she owed Luke , however indirectly . |
| 3 | Even her mother 's " Pull yourself together " remarks began to drag her down as she recognised that that was something she could not do . |
| 4 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that they assumed and air of could n't care less you know that that was their attitude after nationalization . |
| 6 | And that that was him . |
| 7 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 8 | But Parliament had said that that was what judges had to do . |
| 9 | McLeish reflected that Giles Hawick was the classic example of someone who knew what they wanted and did n't mess around , and that that was what had attracted Francis Morgan 's daughter . |
| 10 | Because she was certain that that was what had happened . |
| 11 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 12 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 13 | Despite his charm and looks , she was determined not to fall all over him because she sensed immediately that that was what he expected . |
| 14 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 15 | But I 'm sure that that was what I was somehow looking for . |
| 16 | So we did n't tell them that that was what they were doing , I 'm sorry ! |
| 17 | That that was what was being put forward by the planning authority , then in the next sentence we have Most of the suggested sites are included in the conservation area in the village , and are separated from the built-up part of the village . |
| 18 | I had to explain more than once that that was what I did — go to bed early — until he stopped asking . |
| 19 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 20 | That that was what years of impeccable behaviour earned you . |
| 21 | ‘ I — I presumed that that was what you intended — ’ |
| 22 | I enjoyed that bit of his speech best of all , although I am not sure that that was what the right hon. Gentleman intended . |
| 23 | She did n't add , ‘ And to know you 're still there waiting , ’ because , knowing Charlie as she did , she knew that that was what he would do , wait , hoping against hope . |
| 24 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 25 | It seemed inconceivable that a man as fantastic as Damian Flint could find her attractive , and as she realised that that was what she truly thought of him she felt her hands move caressingly on his strong throat and her eyes move down unsteadily to study his mouth . |
| 26 | ‘ What would I like to eat ? ’ she queried , thinking that that was what he meant . |
| 27 | ‘ We then told the Daily Express that that was what we had done . |
| 28 | It 's all round here so the less I by here , all the and all muscles had all gone and they 're all pressing on a , on a nerve and that 's what 's causing the problem and she said that that was what . |
| 29 | But , no matter how much she wished to avoid returning to Mariánské Láznë , the answer kept coming back again and again that that was her only option . |
| 30 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |