Example sentences of "was [indef pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was nothing Paul Kee could do to stop the kick . |
| 2 | But there was nothing Britain could do . |
| 3 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 4 | There was nothing Belinda could do about the way she felt . |
| 5 | There was nothing Philip could say . |
| 6 | Just as there was nothing Lowell wanted to devote himself to — other than music . |
| 7 | When the hue and cry died down , there was nothing Charlton could do to prevent Lawrence taking on a new challenge . |
| 8 | There was nothing Karen had liked better than being taken on a guided tour of three or four climaxes . |
| 9 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 10 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 11 | At first the Jones said that there was nothing Olwyn liked enough to change her behaviour for and that punishment meant absolutely nothing to her . |
| 12 | There was nothing Oz liked better than finding out how to do some new thing . |
| 13 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 14 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 15 | Forced by her boyfriend , it is alleged , the girl sold sex for up to £90 a session and there was nothing staff at the Suffolk County Council home could do about it , Ipswich Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 17 | There was nothing Wilson could say or do . |
| 18 | There was nothing Charles Wheeler liked better than issuing orders . |
| 19 | So Ted was Dad 's triumph ; he really was someone Dad had freed . |
| 20 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 21 | Bamford on a Friday morning before Christmas was everything Mrs Brissett had warned it would be . |
| 22 | It was everything Sam had ever wanted — except that it was in Somerset and not in Tuscany . ’ |
| 23 | Lunch was everything Christopher had promised . |
| 24 | A lack of common agreement over the objectives of the assessment was something Mrs Jones had not anticipated . |
| 25 | George objected , but Libby said chocolate was something prisoners were sent during the war . |
| 26 | What the girls got up to was something Katherine was to learn only gradually . |
| 27 | She never knew the real reason for the count 's death ; it was something Katya told no one , not until that moment when her brother had finally returned . |
| 28 | Hove was elegant , Brighton racy , and Kemp Town struggling , but there was something louche about the whole place . |
| 29 | Only Lori could act as if she were meeting a bosom friend for tea and a chat , when the reality was something light-years removed . |
| 30 | Eating out while filming on location was something Oliver Reed remembered well . |