Example sentences of "was [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 2 | For there was tenderness in him , no doubt about that , Lisa reflected as they reached the foot of the path and headed across the rocky moonlit beach , his arm around her waist as though nothing could be more natural . |
| 3 | There was moisture around her optic . |
| 4 | I was saying to mum it Sally 's was ages before theirs stopped . |
| 5 | ‘ Was Marcus with you ? ’ she asked suddenly . |
| 6 | In his professional opinion this was overreaction on my part , and he was extremely inconvenienced by my insistence not to be examined internally by him . |
| 7 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 9 | I really wanted to help them out and pointed them in the direction of Red Rhino and it was kind of their idea to put them out on Reception . |
| 10 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 11 | and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them |
| 12 | right so it was kind of it was a religious accusation . |
| 13 | Turner looked quickly at Doyle , and there was worry on his face . |
| 14 | For the first time in her life Horatia was terrified of Rossmayne There was insanity in his eyes , and she knew without a doubt that at that moment he wanted to murder her . |
| 15 | The house was fill of her terrible tiredness , her terrible resentment ; and I knew it was all my fault . |
| 16 | I was a rich man now , but what use was money to me ? |
| 17 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 18 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 19 | Mrs Young told her that the madman who had mischievously unhitched the car was hours behind us in Cartier , but Xanthe was beyond reassurance . |
| 20 | There was loathing in her voice , loathing restrained by laziness and boredom . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 22 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 23 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 24 | Yet I did , in some small way , feel that the house was part of me , and I liked its creaking bouncing floors and its spartan coldness ( it was no place for lolling about ) ; its medley of doors — some Norfolk latch , some brass door-knobbed ; the ancient cloudy glass in its leaded windows ; the odd corners , shelves and cupboards ; its air of fragility , of dignity — for it was indeed very old ; and above all , its village shop smell , of paraffin , strong kitchen soap , cough sweets and aniseed balls , prunes , string , and tobacco . |
| 25 | It was part of me . ’ |
| 26 | On the other hand , if it was part of something bigger … ’ |
| 27 | Tony laughed along with the rest , even though the terrifying feeling that he was part of something unreal and sinister still persisted . |
| 28 | It is true that she was not academic ; this was part of her charm for Lewis . |
| 29 | She was only eighteen and still quite unsophisticated but , after all the glossy and sophisticated women he had gone out with , that was part of her appeal . |
| 30 | Dark brown hair , dark brown eyes , and slightly sallow skin which the photographer had not bothered to disguise or retouch , having understood that this was part of her charm . |