Example sentences of "was [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 2 | There was nothing going on in the centre of . |
| 3 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 4 | No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path . |
| 5 | If it was someone coming in with a nasty attitude really filthy , scruffy , dirty , no fixed address because they lived in er er , an old wagon some where |
| 6 | And there was plenty to smash up in the shed . |
| 7 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 8 | There was somebody moving around in the villa . |
| 9 | It 's official designation is an eyecatcher ; the idea was you looked out of the windows of the house and that your eye was drawn to the temple at the end of the lakes . |
| 10 | Then in 1933 Hoare 's — and its Toby jug trademark — was itself taken over by an East End brewer , Charrington and Co of the Anchor brewery , Mile End Road . |
| 11 | The amalgamation of kingdoms was itself carried out with the greatest animosity on both sides . |
| 12 | Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits — though intrigue played a major role . |
| 13 | I says , what was she doing down in the shop the other day ? |
| 14 | There 's one in the garage I 'm sure there was one left over in the garage . |
| 15 | And was he mown down by the fork-lift truck as a result ? |
| 16 | Was he going down with an infection ? |
| 17 | ‘ Was he giving up on the case ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 19 | If a " respectable " artisan culture was emerging in late eighteenth-century England , was it coming about by a process of separation from a more embracing " culture of poverty " which included the unskilled and casual labourer , the unemployed , the vagrant and the criminal ? |
| 20 | So it , it was it turned out for the best . |
| 21 | ‘ Was it taken down by a policeman ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She 's a canny little thing , as bright as a button , ’ was his summing up of the maid . |
| 23 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |