Example sentences of "[was/were] that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 2 | There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two . |
| 3 | Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’ |
| 4 | Was that about two foot four ? |
| 5 | Was that apparently empty fisherman 's hut an abandoned home or a gun emplacement ? |