Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 2 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 3 | Everyone always wants to knock a man off the top — I know , I was that man . |
| 4 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 5 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 6 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact is , I was that baby , and I know I was born here twenty years ago — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’ |
| 9 | I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , Jinkwa , ’ he concluded inevitably , ‘ I was that soldier . ’ |
| 11 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 12 | a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty . |
| 13 | Clara forbore to point out that cremation did result , precisely , in ashes , because she took , expertly , her mother 's meaning , which was that cremation was an unnatural practice and that bodies ought to rot quietly at their own leisure . |
| 14 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 15 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 16 | Significant amongst these messages were those from the parents of Rochdale , who were that week awaiting a judgement in their own case . |
| 17 | ‘ You should have said you were that way , Monica , ’ said Jan . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't think you were that kind of girl , ’ he said , ‘ and I sha n't see you again . |
| 19 | ‘ If you were that fancy , we 'd have heard about you . ’ |
| 20 | Erm yes if you were that if you were that building |
| 21 | A lot better than she was that holiday ? |
| 22 | She was that cemetery abhorred by the moon , that old sphinx , ignored , forgotten by a careless world . |
| 23 | She was that type of a person . |
| 24 | And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be . |
| 25 | She was that sort of girl . |
| 26 | Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person . |
| 27 | She was that sort of person . |
| 28 | Who was that standing across from the shop , black overcoat , perhaps a woollen hat . |
| 29 | Who was that speaking then ? |
| 30 | That station is supposed to be haunted by old Garrity who was that porter there in the old days , and not many people go near it in daylight , never mind after dark . ’ |