Example sentences of "was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was awake by then , as was everyone else . |
| 2 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 3 | So here was everyone , but where was breakfast ? |
| 4 | ‘ S'awricht , Tam , ’ Wull was endeavouring to stand on tip-toe , but so was everyone else . |
| 5 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 6 | Set a short distance off a minor road , approached by a winding drive flanked by poplars , it was everyone 's image of the ‘ little place in France ’ , rustic but well-proportioned , manageably spacious , restrained but not austere , a Cotswold farmhouse with a French accent . |
| 7 | Willy voiced the philosophy he had learned by experience — it was everyone for himself ; if you did n't take what you wanted , no one was likely to give it to you . |
| 8 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
| 9 | Some semblance of co-operation was finally attained only on the grounds that it was everyone 's responsibility to protect the band from the internal dissension and strife which the affair was creating . |
| 10 | If the boy had a ‘ gift ’ then it was everyone 's duty to see that it was not wasted . |
| 11 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
| 12 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 13 | By the end of the campaign , when it seemed that the whole country was willing him on , it was as if he was everyone 's brother , everyone 's son , everyone 's lover . |
| 14 | The cake was everyone 's favourite . |
| 15 | A man whose idea of democracy was everyone agreeing with what he had already decided ? |
| 16 | That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ? |
| 17 | We were thrown , as , it seems , was everyone else , by the arrival of Portia Forbes . |
| 18 | Virginia was everyone 's favourite , a sweet woman whose schoolgirl looks appealed strongly to the over forty-fives . |
| 19 | Was everyone in costume ? |
| 20 | Families of those receiving the award were also invited , as was everyone who had previously joined the ‘ quarter century club . ’ |
| 21 | Lou was everyone 's idea of the cockney sparrow let loose to fly in a wider world than she had once ever known existed . |
| 22 | Therese , conscious , as was everyone else , of a row of gargantuan proportions going on in Gesner 's dressing room , was blithely uncaring . |
| 23 | ‘ And where was everyone ? ’ |
| 24 | He was everyone . |
| 25 | I thought your first one was everyone getting |
| 26 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 27 | A blanket was put over the cage every night and , as the Headmaster removed it , Endill prayed there was no-one underneath . |
| 28 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 29 | She came in every day , after seeing to the babies , if there was no-one about . |
| 30 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |