Example sentences of "was [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trotted past the celebrated twisting and churning of the Lodore Falls without the slightest inclination to stop and wonder : there was no-one around to impress and the sudden skin of grey which had drawn tightly over the summer sky like a blind hurried him on . |
| 2 | There was no-one really to teach us the ropes . |
| 3 | He knew she lived alone , and wasted no breath reminding her there was no-one there to look after her . |
| 4 | So there was nothing else to do then but head for the Vareyoc Café and try to relax . |
| 5 | He inevitably became a sunset watcher ; there was nothing else to do . |
| 6 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
| 7 | There was nothing else to do ; on her prowls through the empty burrow she 'd already viewed the geology cubes and there was nothing else but tasteless pornography . |
| 8 | There was nothing else to do with him ; theatrical landladies did n't offer babysitting with the rent . |
| 9 | ‘ I accepted the heroin because I felt there was nothing else to do — I loved him , ’ she says . |
| 10 | And on the Sunday well you 'd go to church or chapel because literally there was nothing else to do . |
| 11 | There was nothing else to do . |
| 12 | But it was equally obvious , to the impartial eye at the lens , that there was nothing else to do . |
| 13 | When he had begged enough , when there was nothing else to repeat , Frick had appeared to surrender to Schiller 's request . |
| 14 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 15 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 16 | Beside it a grime encrusted board gave the name and address of the parish priest and the time of services , but there was nothing else to suggest that the door was ever opened . |
| 17 | How could she , how could she not remember , there was nothing else to think of , nothing to get in her way , to confuse her . |
| 18 | ‘ It would not be so bad , ’ Karlinsky continued to his now rapt audience , ‘ if there was nothing else to worry about but the hardships and difficulties I have described to you . |
| 19 | But there was nothing there to soften the agony of her decision . |
| 20 | Now when Abbey looked at the policy , because he 'd got the Covermaster policy , the cheque and everything , there was nothing there to indicate that there was a problem . |
| 21 | Her bowels opened like a tulip , but there was nothing there to come out . |
| 22 | They had been marginally the more dangerous side , but there was nothing then to suggest that Bradford might not complete their third win of the season over Leeds . |
| 23 | Why was I not to know ? ’ |
| 24 | Half-way through the conversation , of course , the penny dropped but how was I then to say , in the words of that potent piece of cheap music , ‘ Ah , yes , I remember it well ’ ? |
| 25 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 26 | If only there was someone here to tell these brilliant things to . |
| 27 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 28 | It was almost empty , there was nobody around to check with and they duly boarded . |
| 29 | She got lost in the labyrinth of yards and passageways that separated the numerous buildings , many of them apparently disused or derelict , that covered the factory site , and there was nobody around to direct her . |
| 30 | There was nobody else to turn to . |