Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 Most days there was that colour spread from the shore to the sky , bigger than a horse trough .
3 Just on the off chance it was that Danny .
4 Naw bit there was that Frazer .
5 And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be .
6 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 . ’
7 Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade .
8 When it became clear by the end of the month that the EEC would not be able to concur on the financial arrangements for the common agricultural policy , the French Foreign Minister , Maurice Couve de Murville , whose turn it was that month to chair the Council of Ministers , abruptly terminated the session despite the objections of the other ministers .
9 Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk .
10 And Philip thought if anyone was a nutcase it was that boy in the wood .
11 The particular Friday night when the Yeti sealed my fate , we went to an end-of-run party for the school play , Doctor Faustus it was that year .
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