Example sentences of "[verb] that [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 2 | You could almost think that was a stereo spread of one performance but if you listen to it on headphones you can hear it properly . ’ |
| 3 | Er , loneliness , I mean , a lot , so many of them deal with loneliness , you 'd think that was a preoccupation of women short story writers , I think . |
| 4 | No we could n't say nothing because I mean that was a time when you had a good job then , unemployment was just the same in the nineteen thirties . |
| 5 | Say that was a tenon there the underneath part of the chair you 're not gon na see drills a hole in there |
| 6 | kiss , kiss that was a quickie , right kiss Stacey , kiss , kiss |
| 7 | As a result , all four benefited from a Wembley Arena show that was a study in contrasts : Cash 's rockabilly bass , Nelson 's plaintive Texas whine , Jennings 's bad-boy blues and Kristofferson 's world-weary romanticism . |
| 8 | He sought the means to do something quite different , creating it out of himself as he went along — but he hoped for everyone : a way of looking that was a kind of worship . |
| 9 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 10 | Straight blonde hair , slender-faced and with a wide mouth of expectancy as if everything that happened that was a surprise was excitement and welcomed . |
| 11 | You know that was a brand new passport ? |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , come on , Jack , we both know that was a one-off . ’ |
| 13 | I was trying to do that was a jigsaw puzzle |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose that was a bomb . ’ |
| 15 | You felt that was a bit long . |
| 16 | Er and we felt that was a bit excessive . |
| 17 | I felt that was a bit early , but all credit to him because he 's worked so hard . |
| 18 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 19 | Is that a pen , I thought that was a pen . |
| 20 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 21 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 22 | I thought that was a mistake then he made . |
| 23 | They thought that was a bit steep for a quarter of an hour 's work and sent back the bill with a request to itemize it . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought that was a bit odd . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , I thought that was a bit of flab that we 've got |
| 26 | So I thought that was a bit greedy so , that 's not bad at all that ! |
| 27 | Yeah , I , I thought that was a bit erm |
| 28 | ethnic origins , yeah , I thought that was a bit over the top . |
| 29 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 30 | That 's the one whe , in the , in the kitchen it bit my mother 's backside one day she thought that was a dog ! |