Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you were on about that love , what pa was saying about , you know , like every night , that our kids , when , they had their pyjamas on , and they 're like , to get hold , I 'm lying watching television , I 'm usually falling asleep , but I put the kids , you know . |
| 2 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 3 | I were on about that today , I ca n't remember who I talked to . |
| 4 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 5 | Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour . |
| 6 | I thought you were over for that |
| 7 | But my observation told me that the moments of personal suffering were over before that ; the bird 's individuality had been reclaimed . |
| 8 | So can you think of any er brochures or any companies which were around at that time to take advantage ? |
| 9 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 10 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 11 | The following Tuesday he was contacted at work to say that the jump was on for that afternoon . |
| 12 | That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time . |
| 13 | Some of it was on about that man there , face got her to stay the night then he was gon na watch it on telly in the er lounge . |
| 14 | No , oh Alison my mate was on about that . |
| 15 | Yeah he would of been cos he was , he was , he was on about that , erm the |
| 16 | They was on about this and er they was on about that . |
| 17 | Well that 's what she was on about that , and and they was they were going |
| 18 | land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it |
| 19 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 20 | I replied , describing the state it was in at that time , and what I hoped to do with it . |
| 21 | I mean it was down to that kind of detail . |
| 22 | I I recall that I in effect directed that an officer should carry a shotgun as opposed to the original officer that er was down for that weapon . |
| 23 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 24 | This could have been a winner if the quality of the keyboard was up to that of the casing . |
| 25 | er what happened were , er she got this brass bottom and brass top and it 's like , was up like that and she 's got curtains round and drapes like that |
| 26 | I was back to that school chapel with the chaplain doing his Goddest to get me to sign on the dotted line and hand over my soul . |
| 27 | And suddenly she was back in that embrace in the water . |
| 28 | She wanted to see what there was out of that lanky half-window . |
| 29 | Sound of the train getting closer and before I knew it I was out on that street pushing the trolley . |
| 30 | We 've no way of knowing how long she was out in that rain . |