StringNet search result

Example sentences of "that was a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Yes , sorry , that was a mistake , ’ says Stan Gilligrew .
2	That was a mistake , says Darwin Clark , Buick 's marketing manager .
3	That was a mistake , leaving the mask behind
4	‘ And that was a mistake , Frank .
5	That was a mistake .
6	That was a mistake .
7	That was a mistake , Your Majesty . ’
8	For him , that was a mistake .
9	‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote .
10	Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up .
11	But that was a mistake in more ways than one .
12	That was a mistake .
13	I told them I was transexual … maybe that was a mistake because the prosecution service laid the charges for an attack not on a woman but on a man
14	That was a mistake , was it ?
15	That was a mistake .
16	That was a mistake .
17	I thought that was a mistake then he made .
18	And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan .
19	‘ That was a cover story .
20	That was a tune they 'd be familiar with — oh , by God they would .
21	erm And , of course , that was a symbol of all the problems of money that the king had , and the ordinary citizens of Oxford had in trying to provide him with it , mostly very reluctantly and unwillingly .
22	The room tensed , but George shrugged and let it go past , perhaps admitting that was a ball he could n't reach .
23	‘ That was a bummer , ’ says Kier .
24	That that was a holiday that
25	So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital .
26	Senator Tom Harkin said : ‘ That was a fun , scary movie .
27	And that was a relief and a horror together .
28	She cut him dead , and that was a relief also .
29	She had stopped trying to make him like her ; that was a relief .
30	Her chihuahua was making its ‘ business ’ in the gutter , and that was a relief because it meant she would n't have to take him out again in the evening , and wait around for him .