Example sentences of "that was [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was their second mistake . |
| 2 | Brentford won at Grimsby in the week and that was their first victory for weeks . |
| 3 | But that was its first race . |
| 4 | That was her first job . |
| 5 | Children had knocked over the tree of green and red glitz , and everyone was picking it up ; that was her last image of the restaurant . |
| 6 | If you were a " Sir " then the name just after that was your first name , so that must be the surname … and Christian name was easy because Christ had been Jesus Christ , so obviously therefore the Christian name was the second name … and that was how you could tell . |
| 7 | And that was your first posting as a principal . |
| 8 | Right so that was your first attempt at er a role play w what were your thoughts ? |
| 9 | Jim deliberately gave out your name to the press as John Amiss when I reminded him that that was your second name . |
| 10 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 11 | That was our first day . |
| 12 | So that was our first success when we decided that process . |
| 13 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 14 | That was my first day at Lowood . |
| 15 | ‘ That was my first idea . ’ |
| 16 | That was my first experience with him , basically . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That was my first experience of Genesis and I loved it ! |
| 18 | That was my first experience of electronic monitoring . |
| 19 | That was my first bit of bad luck . |
| 20 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
| 21 | Sorrel was on duty at her stall on the corner of the flea market , so that was my first port of call . |
| 22 | That was my first mistake . |
| 23 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 24 | ‘ That was my first thought . |
| 25 | ‘ That was my first thought . |
| 26 | That was my first kiss from a woman . |
| 27 | That was my first touch with death . |
| 28 | ‘ I know I told you that was my first visit since my honeymoon with Debbie 's mother and that 's true . |
| 29 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 30 | I also have an ‘ 82 Rick 4001 that I do n't use very much any more — that was my first bass . ’ |