Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 2 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 3 | There was nothing to protect it save a company of disreputable rabble and a small strange looking nine-barrelled cannon . |
| 4 | There was nothing to tie him to the place now . |
| 5 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 6 | ‘ There was nobody to touch him on the pitch , ’ he said . |