Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact on the Germans was immediate ; from this moment , said the Reichs Archives , ‘ began the flanking fire on the ravines and roads north of Douaumont that was to cause us such severe casualties . ’ |
| 2 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 3 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to live somewhere nice , that was called something nice , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 6 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 7 | Was it Rabbi Moishe 's imminent departure to Palestine that was making him more withdrawn than usual ? |
| 8 | At a time when DEA Nicosia was so frenetically overextended in so many sensitive areas , he needed to stay close to Hurley , and the key to that was to make himself useful . |