Example sentences of "was [indef pn] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that there was no-one living in the house . |
| 2 | There was nothing said about the transfer . |
| 3 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 4 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 5 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 6 | What Richard had done was nothing compared to the havoc that Rourke had created within her . |
| 7 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 8 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 9 | But it was nothing compared to the strain of walking out on to that huge expanse of stage and facing the crowd . |
| 10 | Mind you , mastering the stilts was nothing compared to the challenge of remaining astride a unicycle : |
| 11 | Talking to my sister on the phone about the visit she insisted that the feeling of being absent in my mother 's presence was nothing to do with the illness , was the emotional underpinning of our childhood . |
| 12 | It was nothing to do with the Change . |
| 13 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 14 | Something had gone wrong between him and Suzi that was nothing to do with the theatre . |
| 15 | So the bankruptcy of the original supplier was nothing to do with the delay or actually going for another supplier ? |
| 16 | It was nothing to do with the castle . |
| 17 | I had a nasty little feeling in my inside that was nothing to do with the sauna . |
| 18 | It was nothing to do with the record industry , or entertainment of any sort , and thus a radical departure from the Virgin principle of expanding into related fields . |
| 19 | He opened the briefing by telling the assembled squad : ‘ In this case there was nothing left at the scene … |
| 20 | He opened the briefing by telling the police squad : ‘ In this case there was nothing left at the scene … |
| 21 | The mortals seemed miserable and the children cruel and now there was nothing left of the spectacle . |
| 22 | The , the , there was a very old car , , one , in a beautiful car but there was nothing left of the car , you could n't even |
| 23 | There was nothing left of the friendship they had known in Barnswick . |
| 24 | There was nothing left of the boat , let alone Miss Mallender — which was a mercy in its way , I s'pose . |
| 25 | There was nothing left in the world but this vertiginous wave . |
| 26 | There was nothing left in the world save the searing anguish of her imprisoned fingers , and the hot fierce throb of straining muscles . |
| 27 | Moreover , in China there was nothing corresponding to the secularization of history in Europe after the domination of the Church ended with the Renaissance and Reformation . |
| 28 | They decided that as there was nothing shown on the sheet , there was nothing there and if there was , it should have been shown . |
| 29 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 30 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |