Example sentences of "was [pron] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had been round to have a supportive chat ; there was nothing else that they could do in the circumstances . |
| 2 | There was nothing here that belonged to him . |
| 3 | Surely there was nothing here that could threaten . |
| 4 | There was nothing there that would heal him . |
| 5 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 6 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 7 | In fact , so bowled over was she initially that she had actually gone out to dinner with Travis one night . |
| 8 | There was something else that baffled Mrs Wilson . |
| 9 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 10 | No , the girl 's instincts told her there was something else that deeply disturbed the mistress , something secret that maybe even her own husband did n't know about . |
| 11 | But it was something else that filled us with terror . |
| 12 | I had lost you once before because of my stupidity but now here was something else that completely undermined me — a tiny baby , a hold over you that I could never compete with . |
| 13 | But there was something else that we had . |
| 14 | There was something else that came up out of the minutes . |
| 15 | I think it it was something anyway that we had popular something like that . |
| 16 | There was one there that was empty and for a long long while . |
| 17 | Did you choose to move away from midwifery in that way or did er or was it just that er a job came up ? |
| 18 | What was it exactly that made Masailand such a pleasant place for members of the British Colonial Service to be ? |
| 19 | Was it simply that he wished to remain in Istanbul , and , if so , did he wish to do so for professional or for personal reasons ? |
| 20 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 21 | Why was it then that he could n't remember where she had been shot ? |
| 22 | Why was it then that she almost envied the girl ? |
| 23 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 24 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 25 | Ramsey was asked later , were you getting unintelligible , or was it only that the bishop was a bad listener to Holy Week addresses ? |
| 26 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |