Example sentences of "that was [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 2 | Had she not been nervous , Lydia would have been angry , for she had realised that she was , herself , a domestic beast penned in against the night in a frightening little box of night that was all her own , vulnerable to destruction by the very bounds of its definition . |
| 3 | She was consumed with it — driven by some mysterious need to conquer , to lay claim to one more devoted subject in this kingdom that was all her own . |
| 4 | An afternoon that was all hers . |
| 5 | Ours was called Woolly Jump and she what she used to do she used to carry things into her den into er into er part of er a sort of little lobby that was all hers |
| 6 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
| 7 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
| 8 | Was it just me that was excited you said . |
| 9 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 10 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |