Example sentences of "that was [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry — that was rather over the top , was n't it ? |
| 2 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 3 | And that was apart from the danger . |
| 4 | erm , that was immediately after the war , you know , the first war |
| 5 | That was primarily considering the failures of last year 's recruitment programme ( in as much as we felt far short of our recruitment targets . ) |
| 6 | Still got an hole here , that was just with a pellet gun that was . |
| 7 | That was just after the war , 1949 , and I was passionately interested in all the political movements . ’ |
| 8 | But do n't forget that was just after the war and er the Labour were beginning to build up , getting things better , run better country than they were previous p people . |
| 9 | okay , okay , all right year seven , that was just by the way . |
| 10 | The army said that , in three days , it had killed 27 people ; diplomats said that well over 100 had died , and that was just in the capital , Bamako . |
| 11 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 12 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 13 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 14 | Yes , I , I think that was that was still when the I think that was still in a sense under the auspices of the old agrarian er of the of forty seven was still being given by . |
| 15 | Oh yes they , that was further in t that was further in the dock |
| 16 | But that was purely in the alternative to a public inquiry in the first instance with the possibility of alternative means of disposal coming forward and being accepted . |
| 17 | The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs . |
| 18 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 19 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 20 | But that was all to the good . |
| 21 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
| 22 | ‘ That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now . |
| 23 | However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned . |
| 24 | That was definitely in the past , though . |
| 25 | But that was long after the moment when my pathetic attempt to enlist the so-called forces of darkness on my behalf had backfired . ’ |
| 26 | Only the grandmother had even been inside Bourani ; and that was long before the war . |
| 27 | The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else . |
| 28 | ‘ But that was only on a Sunday . |
| 29 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 30 | Noreen was kept on after the try-out week , but she knew that was only on the strength of Fred , the Stage Manager 's sympathetic report , and for the fact that she got on well with everyone in the company , especially Bernie . |