Example sentences of "was [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was nothing Paul Kee could do to stop the kick . |
| 2 | But there was nothing Britain could do . |
| 3 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 4 | There was nothing Belinda could do about the way she felt . |
| 5 | There was nothing Philip could say . |
| 6 | Just as there was nothing Lowell wanted to devote himself to — other than music . |
| 7 | When the hue and cry died down , there was nothing Charlton could do to prevent Lawrence taking on a new challenge . |
| 8 | There was nothing Karen had liked better than being taken on a guided tour of three or four climaxes . |
| 9 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 10 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 11 | At first the Jones said that there was nothing Olwyn liked enough to change her behaviour for and that punishment meant absolutely nothing to her . |
| 12 | There was nothing Oz liked better than finding out how to do some new thing . |
| 13 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 14 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 15 | Forced by her boyfriend , it is alleged , the girl sold sex for up to £90 a session and there was nothing staff at the Suffolk County Council home could do about it , Ipswich Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 17 | There was nothing Wilson could say or do . |
| 18 | There was nothing Charles Wheeler liked better than issuing orders . |
| 19 | On the there was me Ian and Noel all sleeping in the Ian in the middle . |
| 20 | ‘ Then there was me sister 's weddin' eighteen years ago , ’ said Mrs Beavis , seated on the bedside chair . |
| 21 | I 've bin dealin' wiv Johnson 's fer years now , an' so was me parents when they 'ad the shop . ’ |
| 22 | It was me feller really . |
| 23 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 24 | We 've grown up as if she was me mother . ’ |
| 25 | We got a whole teacher got a whole lot of letters for some piece all about collecting cans for getting trees and it was them letters . |
| 26 | ‘ What was them screams for ? ’ |
| 27 | And er for the and then at Rendall took on two new combines from Ma from the Massey Ferguson company that was them days . |
| 28 | Erm what was I thinking of . |
| 29 | That 's right what was I thinking of . |
| 30 | ‘ Boxin' was 'is love , but all that 's over now . |