Example sentences of "was [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years ago there was no-one to defend the accused except state lawyers . |
| 2 | We ca n't all sit around laughing , 'cos we 'd all die pretty soon because there was no-one to gather food , or make sure it was safe . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 4 | And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this . |
| 5 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 6 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 7 | When we reached Auckland we had no plan of action at all , and as we knew no-one there was no-one to meet us . |
| 8 | There was no-one to blame any more . |
| 9 | There was nothing to link them directly to Zoser . ’ |
| 10 | Most people were not taxed on their earnings as they were not French citizens , and there was nothing to spend money on apart from cigarettes , beer , and trips into town . |
| 11 | However , there was nothing to stimulate Branson 's interest more than the prospect of a good contract race against a rival company — Chrysalis , Polydor or CBS . |
| 12 | And anyway , after all , it was nothing to say , I mean , that I was taking the towels over for you . ’ |
| 13 | There was nothing to say and nothing we could do . |
| 14 | Violet rose to go , there was nothing to say , be said . |
| 15 | But there were times when you could n't say anything because there was nothing to say . |
| 16 | There was nothing to say one way or the other whether Madreidetic 's piratical policies would go on . |
| 17 | Beyond that there was nothing to say . |
| 18 | There was nothing to say . |
| 19 | But Conradin said nothing ; there was nothing to say . |
| 20 | ‘ There was nothing to say . |
| 21 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 22 | The train journey down to london was nothing to rave about . |
| 23 | There was nothing to cause an echo in the car , already full of engine and wind noise , so it was probably only in their minds that her voice seemed to fade in throbbing waves , as across a vast canyon . |
| 24 | Shadows appeared where there was nothing to cause them . |
| 25 | Mm , there used to be the Cardoma almost opposite here , it was an enormous cafe downstairs and an upstairs , and when that went there was nothing to replace it |
| 26 | There was nothing to remind him of Eileen . |
| 27 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 28 | But it was still too soon , there was nothing to see , no movement in the branches , no rippling streak through the trees . |
| 29 | There was nothing to see . |
| 30 | Apart from some dark patches on the wall that he had n't noticed before , there was nothing to see . |