Example sentences of "[verb] that [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that was necessarily the drift of the the House Builders Comment . |
| 2 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 3 | I mean that was really a breakthrough . |
| 4 | I kept thinking that perhaps you were still in Australia , but I expect that was just an excuse ! |
| 5 | I was surprised when I found out about the interim order , but I assumed that was only a convenience measure , because you 're resident in Scotland and I 'm not . |
| 6 | erm from yesterday er I think meself personally I 'm very methodical sort of person and I felt what was most important the revelations meself was thought patterns and the use of most structured structured in a presentation and also the importance I could n't believe how that using them made such a difference actually to yourself when you 're standing there and the audience participation erm thought patterns well I 've always used that was just a revelation I mean I 've never |
| 7 | Yet she sensed that was only a beginning . |
| 8 | People in Walton believe that was just a ruse by the youths . |
| 9 | She also looked very young and unsure of herself , but Kate knew that was just an illusion . |
| 10 | Later , back up the shore beside their picnic blanket , beside Karen 's sun dress that was now a mass of creeping black , the girls lay on their stomachs and talked again of Parr , desultorily . |
| 11 | ( If so , I thought that was just the problem that made it impossible to use Rocky … ) |
| 12 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 13 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought that was probably the way you wanted it to be . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
| 16 | ‘ From what Valesio 's widow has told me , it 's dear that her husband 's contacts with the gang began with a telephone call that was simply a signal for him to go to some prearranged meeting-place . |
| 17 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |
| 18 | David said that was indeed the case . |
| 19 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |