Example sentences of "that [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work on subliminal learning does n't work Okay , Brown suggests that you bring a c wardrobe of cuddly toys and mementoes and things like that that were in the room when you were learning , context dependent learning . |
| 2 | Until the the play centre was actually opened and that was towards the end of the life of the flats really . |
| 3 | So we did it all the hard way then , and also the garden you see , we 're supposed to grow all our vegetables in the garden , that was outside the cottage , then there was the hedge and the field , and there was a gap down there . |
| 4 | That was during the First World War , I should be I suppose about five then . |
| 5 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 6 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 7 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 8 | That was during the the first war . |
| 9 | Aye , that was during the wartime , aye aye . |
| 10 | That was during the war time , that was about nineteen forty one I should say , when they started doing the concrete roads . |
| 11 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 12 | That was during the war years |
| 13 | There are road works at Cheavely interchange junction 13 of the M4 and that is gon na cause just a little bit of delay , it was a bit chock-a-block earlier er that was during the rush-hour but it should be easing up . |
| 14 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 15 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 16 | I think he was in a munitions factory somewhere near Baghdad and the stress had certainly precipitated quite a serious heart condition and that was under a relatively peaceful situation , so if there was any sign of war out there that would obviously be tenfold . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you , that was over a long time ago . ’ |
| 18 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 19 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 20 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe they did n't think that was worth a car . ’ |
| 22 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 23 | Two site foremen from Coventry had H19 and H20 ‘ front ’ , but that was across the aisle . |
| 24 | Yes and they were , he was playing with his toys and his bricks and he was , in the evening you were feeling a bit sick sometimes with it was pretty rough crossing , er that was across the channel . |
| 25 | And that was including the very worst possible scenario of disasters she could devise . |
| 26 | And that was about every other day she used to bake about ooh I forget whether it was fourteen pound or twenty eight pound of flour she us . |
| 27 | Well you used to took er take one length bet from one s er erm er straw up to the other , that was about a yard . |
| 28 | That was about a human . |
| 29 | He thought that was about the stupidest statement he 'd ever made . |
| 30 | That was about the only aggro I remember … |