Example sentences of "that [was/were] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what the present had on offer to Michael Holly . |
| 2 | That was what the choir outside was for . |
| 3 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 4 | If that was what the speaker intended to say , why did n't he just say it ? |
| 5 | That was what the chevauchée was intended to achieve . |
| 6 | DO IT DO IT DO IT — that was what the dream had said . |
| 7 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 8 | That was what the jury had decided . |
| 9 | We do n't believe that was what the public intended when they donated to the Trust . ’ |
| 10 | That was what the man came to see her about . |
| 11 | ‘ But that was what the professor beetle thought about his surface . |
| 12 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 13 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 14 | Th th the House was told that and that was what the situation . |
| 15 | So that was what the search was all about . |
| 16 | that was you the night the doctor came round he , he nearly threw up |