Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night . |
| 2 | He was so stiff upper-lipped he could hardly speak . |
| 3 | he was saying , John , that he was so excited mind you , what I want to know is how excited was mum when they arrived ? |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to make too much of it though , as if there was only one person we could want . |
| 5 | and say this group of four here , erm , will get this much shared out between us , so if there were a third as many people , if there was only one person we would n't need so many erm , if there was only one pizza , right , |
| 6 | There was only one person she wanted to see and that was why she stared so searchingly into the young pretty face of the policewoman . |
| 7 | There was only one person she could turn to . |
| 8 | There was only one person she could have happily shared her home with and that was Daphne Bleech-Palmer . |
| 9 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 10 | There was only one assurance she wanted . |
| 11 | And there was only one way she could think of to do that . |
| 12 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 13 | ‘ There was only one man he envied . ’ |
| 14 | There was only one thing she could think of to do . |
| 15 | There was only one thing she could do , though everything within her rebelled against it . |
| 16 | There was only one thing he could do . |
| 17 | There was only one thing he lacked and that was a wife . |
| 18 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 19 | There was only one thing I was ashamed of in my love for Dana , which had sprung from poetry , and from sources I knew were pure . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew there was only one thing I could do — find the father of Janice 's baby and persuade him to marry her in my place . ’ |
| 21 | There was only one place they could scour that did not need a search warrant : TV London . |
| 22 | ‘ Brian Clough made the lad a terrific offer but there was only one place he wanted to be , and that was Old Trafford . |
| 23 | If she was still in the garden , there was only one place she could be , and that was the summerhouse . |
| 24 | There was only one place she could go to . |
| 25 | But whether it meant she passed or failed , Folly knew that there was only one answer she could make . |
| 26 | There was only one photograph it could have been — the picture of John that accompanied our messages . |
| 27 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
| 28 | Cos they wo n't stand if you sort of say oh well I was away last week they wo n't take that as an excuse . |
| 29 | It was just that pain I was getting . |
| 30 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |