Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 2 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 3 | This was information the Palestinians sought in vain from the State Department during Mr Bush 's presidency . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know this was Edward the Seventh 's Royal Coach ? ’ |
| 5 | Then I remember the shout of ‘ Billy Roles ’ place is going up now'' — this was Roles the Builders whose yard was opposite the laundry . |
| 6 | This was Max the Rottweiller . |
| 7 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 8 | That was way the co sign of a carter wearing his cap right on the side of his over his ear . |