Example sentences of "and that was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 2 | And that was when the university was very much on the British Council circuit . |
| 3 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
| 4 | Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns . |
| 5 | Gloucester were roared out and that was where the hospitality finished . |
| 6 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 7 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 8 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 9 | AND THAT WAS JUST THE START OF A THOROUGH RENOVATION THAT 'S TAKEN 20 YEARS TO COMPLETE . |
| 10 | Er er and and and that was n't the case . |
| 11 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 12 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 13 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 14 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 15 | One lick led to another , in her experience , and that was not the idea this afternoon , there were serious things in train . |
| 16 | And that was not the feeling engendered by her relations with either of the Crumwallises , for example , or with Mr McWhirter . |
| 17 | And that was not the end of it , for there were permutations . |
| 18 | Influenced by our strong local-government showing in Birmingham and the Midlands , I advised June and that was clearly the majority view . |
| 19 | Eventually he bent over and told the Head Girl to kick him ; she was amazed but she did so — just stepped forward and kicked him and that was exactly the step he wanted . |
| 20 | Even so , I noticed Rosie was doing it , and that was quite a sight too ! |
| 21 | I thought , ‘ This name looks good in print , ’ and that was quite a relief because Aspel is not a good name to pronounce — people always want to say Aspirin or Cesspool … . |
| 22 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 23 | And that was quite a lot of money |
| 24 | And that was quite an experience . |
| 25 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 26 | Drama must , perforce , have an ultimate target and destination and that was always the Clarion call to the earlier distinguished folk who trod these boards . |
| 27 | Sometimes it 's just because we want our curiosity satisfied , and that was obviously the case with Nicodemus . |
| 28 | Of course Cagney was a marvellous showman and that was precisely the point , for audiences had shown a predilection for zest and sharpness and a new kind of urban charm and Hollywood was quite prepared to exploit these qualities in its own way . |
| 29 | And that was only a fraction of the tricks he said he could do in his Heyday . |
| 30 | And that was only the beginning . |