Example sentences of "was [adv] [det] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why we was there b it was because er there was so many deserters in our lot . |
| 2 | ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us . |
| 3 | There was so much noise around them , children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay . |
| 4 | But at the same time , she was nettled that her daughter had n't told her she was going out , and the sexual jealousy , which was so much part of their relationship , was irritated by the news . |
| 5 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 6 | But he was so much part of his time , even in the very attempt to withdraw from it , that there was no possibility of his creating a viable alternative to the society in which he lived and worked . |
| 7 | There was so much talk about it , so many furtive conversations , and yet no one ever saw it . |
| 8 | And there was so much danger about him — on stage and off stage — it was intoxicating . |
| 9 | There was so much anger in her she could not see what might be done with it . |
| 10 | There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened . |
| 11 | He was so reasoned , and there was so much truth in what he said . |
| 12 | Unfortunately there was so little height in which to pull out of the dive , and the aircraft was going so fast , that gross overloading of the wing structure was absolutely inevitable . |
| 13 | His office was perhaps another factor in his choice . |
| 14 | It was only half way through my life , I suddenly realized if you really want something , go for it . |
| 15 | Serving large helpings , I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority . |
| 16 | It was only another instance of his drive to gain control , she told herself . |
| 17 | Ltd. he and his brother were made directors , but there was apparently some friction between them and in 1882 he resigned and set up in practice on his own as a consultant . |
| 18 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 19 | Syl was away all day with our host , shooting something , and I was too shy to say I was tired and would like to go and sleep in my room . |
| 20 | He was just another wally like anyone else . |
| 21 | These girls were the ones who were always getting put in detention , never did any homework , smoked dope at 11 and started having sex at 14 — shoplifting was just another phase for them to go through . ’ |
| 22 | He suspected she was just another image from his dream-packed sleep . |
| 23 | in , there was just enough room for me . |
| 24 | And he stopped and luckily there was just enough room for me to slow down and just go between them . |
| 25 | There was just enough boldness in his stare to border on the arrogant , and she clenched her fists at her sides . |
| 26 | On the right , his father was not many yards behind him in that charge . |
| 27 | It was not that collision with anything of that kind of size was capable of damaging the field : indeed it had been established that it would require the power of several suns to put even a dent in the electric blue haze which now surrounded and protected the vessel and its contents . |
| 28 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 29 | He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life . |
| 30 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |