Example sentences of "was [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 3 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was nothing the matter with his features . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was nothing the same . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 11 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 16 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 17 | ‘ For those who think that this is window dressing , I pause to remind you that not so long ago the Lord Chancellor was himself the subject of judicial review proceedings , ’ he added . |
| 18 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 19 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 20 | Later , students could attend lectures at the Royal Institution by Michael Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) who was himself the son of a blacksmith farrier . |
| 21 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 22 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 23 | John Harlow , appointed in 1560 , was himself the local vicar and his candidature was approved by the parishioners ; when the Goldsmiths examined him , they declared themselves satisfied without noting his qualifications and without recourse to external referees . |
| 24 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 25 | Judge Goldstone was himself the subject of harsh criticism from a number of senior government figures for making " wild suggestions " . |
| 26 | it could expand , unless it could gather strength and produce an army er it was on the road to annihilation which was their the course of erm Chiang Kai-Shek 's was n't it ? |
| 27 | that was you the night the doctor came round he , he nearly threw up |
| 28 | It was not only a constitution which really was and is effective in the running of the state , but which was itself the product of the hegemonic culture already established . |
| 29 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 30 | This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism . |