Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party . |
| 2 | I did n't know they were that colour . |
| 3 | So how do we know it 's that Sunday ? |
| 4 | How do you know he 's that bulge down there |
| 5 | I do n't recognise it is that ford , that 's ford Ruth is n't it ? , that 's what it is , it 's a back ford , Pearly Way , those factories I 'm sure . |
| 6 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 7 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have said you were that way , Monica , ’ said Jan . |
| 9 | there are advantages erm and quite honestly if erm er the way I put it is that salary company car and BUPA and all that sort of thing |
| 10 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 11 | Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't think you were that kind of girl , ’ he said , ‘ and I sha n't see you again . |
| 13 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 15 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Was there someone else around you would rather she had married ? ’ he asked bluntly , deciding it was that sort of conversation . |
| 17 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 18 | is that , tell me is that boy with the imitation chap outside ? |
| 19 | What they all tell you is that doing business and controlling credit overseas is much the same as it is at home except that it is more complicated and expensive . |
| 20 | Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there . |
| 21 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll bet it was that woman who went to see the house after us yesterday . |
| 23 | Oh you 're , you 're that bit further , well I suppose I 'm that bit further really |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose it 's that woman ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose it was that meeting . |
| 26 | A lot of people took risks to make the tractors sell and some economists feel it 's that confidence which will eventually pull Britain back up out of recession . |
| 27 | I feel it 's that sort of occasion where one is merited . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't think they are that type of band anyway . |
| 29 | I mean , yeah , I mean , knew they 're that price . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't realise he was that sort . |