Example sentences of "[pers pn] was that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone always wants to knock a man off the top — I know , I was that man . |
2 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
3 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ The fact is , I was that baby , and I know I was born here twenty years ago — ’ |
6 | ‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’ |
7 | I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult . |
8 | ‘ You see , Jinkwa , ’ he concluded inevitably , ‘ I was that soldier . ’ |
9 | A lot better than she was that holiday ? |
10 | She was that cemetery abhorred by the moon , that old sphinx , ignored , forgotten by a careless world . |
11 | She was that type of a person . |
12 | And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be . |
13 | She was that sort of girl . |
14 | Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person . |
15 | She was that sort of person . |
16 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
17 | it was they was that panicking cos tomorrow morning , the ministry are coming and |
18 | Thus it was that Rincewind , hurrying through the crowded , flare-lit evening bazaars of Morpork with the Luggage trundling behind him , jostled a tall dark figure , turned to deliver a few suitable curses , and beheld Death . |
19 | I thought it was that wife . |
20 | But it was that voice that really nailed it ; that languid , partly-formed Brooklyn drawl moving somewhere in the area of the tune . |
21 | It was that voice again . |
22 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
23 | Miss Evans replied : ‘ I 'm sure it was that date . ’ |
24 | Now the I 'm just trying to think of some some of those pictures that are in there now there was one , it was that size or in a pair like that lovely looking pictures |
25 | It was , it was that size |
26 | And Philip thought if anyone was a nutcase it was that boy in the wood . |
27 | It was that look , almost triumphant , that called up resentment , which in turn restored sanity . |
28 | It was that determination which gave her doctors and parents such hope when she underwent a heart and lung transplant ; a last ditch attempt to save her , after her lungs were virtually destroyed by the disease Cystic Fibrosis . |
29 | But as his fans at the College agree , it was that determination to give 110% of himself to his audience that made Frankie Howerd , one of the greats of British Comedy . |
30 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |