Example sentences of "that [was/were] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was something an infantryman could understand . |
| 2 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 3 | That was what a poisoning was : death by remote control . |
| 4 | ‘ He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union ’ : that was what the words meant , and again they were very old words , from the days of ancient Rome . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | We do n't believe that was what the public intended when they donated to the Trust . ’ |
| 7 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 8 | But that was what the SAS was all about . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | DO IT DO IT DO IT — that was what the dream had said . |
| 11 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 12 | That was what the British people wanted but the Establishment did n't . |
| 13 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 14 | That was what the present had on offer to Michael Holly . |
| 15 | That was what the chevauchée was intended to achieve . |
| 16 | ‘ But that was what the professor beetle thought about his surface . |
| 17 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 18 | Or at least that was what the smooth-skulled guide said when Chesarynth asked why they could n't land closer . |
| 19 | That was what the big brown bottle contained . |
| 20 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 21 | To think that was what the poor fella was going to do when I saw ‘ n pass my door Monday morning ! ’ |
| 22 | To the accusation that Performance Plus was encouraging staff to chase customers for payment , Bob observed that he thought that was what the BBC was doing with people who hadn ‘ t bought a TV licence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That was what the men on the next bench were doing ; they still wore their overcoats , rough shabby clothes bundled round them , like rolls of carpet stacked and tied with twine . |
| 25 | He had been driving too fast , that was what the police had said , and she could believe it now — he always had , when he was down , sunk into that deep trough of depression that occasionally consumed him , so that he lost all self-belief , all self-esteem . |
| 26 | I enjoyed that bit of his speech best of all , although I am not sure that that was what the right hon. Gentleman intended . |
| 27 | That was what the choir outside was for . |
| 28 | That was what the man came to see her about . |
| 29 | If that was what the speaker intended to say , why did n't he just say it ? |
| 30 | That was what the jury had decided . |