Example sentences of "was [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because there was nothing no signature whatsoever . |
| 2 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 3 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 4 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 5 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 6 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 7 | There was nothing the matter with his features . |
| 8 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 9 | This was nothing the same . |
| 10 | He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it . |
| 11 | ‘ Was I a naughty girl to ask for champagne ? ’ she enquired , certain in the knowledge that children 's misdemeanours are not usually regarded seriously . |
| 12 | ‘ Was I a pressie ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 14 | " And was I a nuisance then ? " |
| 15 | ‘ Was I a little too blunt ? |
| 16 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 17 | ‘ Was I an awful pig ? ’ she murmured . |
| 18 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 19 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 20 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 21 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 22 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 23 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 24 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 25 | Was yours an endowment ? |
| 26 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 27 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 28 | He was himself a greatly talented teacher , a master of clear explanation and a fine blackboard artist . |
| 29 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 30 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |