Example sentences of "was [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment . |
| 2 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 3 | West won the second frame on the black but that was all he managed against the Ulsterman . |
| 4 | But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession . |
| 5 | ‘ Naturally , but the plant manager was convinced it was only something to do with the Friends of the Earth . |
| 6 | Once this was over we returned to the college exhausted , with such a cram packed day . |
| 7 | I was going to say it was just something stuck on the |
| 8 | Sawyer 's interim regime — which had invited the participation of his opponents — was not itself party to the Banjul agreement . |
| 9 | The people on the pavements were always sprucely dressed , they pushed their prams or followed their dogs at a leisurely , unhurried pace ; the cars purred quietly on the smooth roads ; there was always somebody playing at the Tennis Club . |
| 10 | It was probably something to do with the view that had convinced George he ought to be drinking a very large glass of dry sherry from the wood . |
| 11 | It was probably something to do with the change of Government . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was also something to do with the fact that this tall , blond Government man had corroborated his story about what had happened in the jeweller 's on that night . |
| 13 | I thought it was today you want on the computer . |
| 14 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 15 | It was n't them dancing on the car , it was this chap who was doing it ? |
| 16 | If it was a day of moody magnificence that would have inspired Thomas — coal-black skies , lashing rain , swirling winds — some would say it was n't one suited to the Wallaby winger 's high-summer skills . |
| 17 | Was n't she motivated by the same inner compulsion , the urge to forge ahead ? |
| 18 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why was n't he struck off the Roll , or whatever they do to solicitors ? ’ |
| 20 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 21 | ‘ Was n't it ages till the All Clear ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't anything to do with the group . |
| 24 | It was n't anything to do with the nuclear industry , but a session on the TV game show Every Second Counts hosted by Paul Daniels [ pictured right ] . |
| 25 | It was n't anything to do with the way I felt or , for that matter , the way you felt … it was … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Academically there was n't anything to shout from the ceilings , in fact I do n't think that he found the work easy , but there was a dedication there that some of his contemporaries of the same ability could have used . |
| 27 | That is when we realised that the materialistic gap between the rich and poor was indeed nothing compared to the wide gulf in understanding , and that the understanding of health problems in this country would take a long painstaking process of re-accumulating the evidence . |
| 28 | I 'll see you , phone you one day in the week , I saw the post lady coming up the drive and I said to Henry who 's that , he threw himself against the top window so there was indeed someone coming up the drive , tore into the dinning room , picked up his tennis ball , raced back to the window and wow , wow , wow , with his ball in his mouth , and I said Henry you 're really going to frightened off intruders with a ball in your mouth , I said . |
| 29 | One of the most notable omissions in his education and his interests was almost anything to do with the arts . |
| 30 | I ca n't imagine where Ken Palmer thought he was when it came to the Gooch run-out . |