Example sentences of "that [was/were] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 2 | I enjoyed that bit of his speech best of all , although I am not sure that that was what the right hon. Gentleman intended . |
| 3 | Or at least that was what the smooth-skulled guide said when Chesarynth asked why they could n't land closer . |
| 4 | At least , that was what the next-door dog , Bully , did , and Angela really judged all dogs by Bully , who was a big , black-faced alsatian who looked fierce and dangerous but was really just young , strong , and bursting with love and high spirits . |
| 5 | To think that was what the poor fella was going to do when I saw ‘ n pass my door Monday morning ! ’ |
| 6 | That was what the British people wanted but the Establishment did n't . |
| 7 | That was what the big brown bottle contained . |
| 8 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |