Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , they 'd know there was nothing worth stealing ? ’ said Alan . |
| 2 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
| 3 | Fenna had given her freedom and power and joy ; she would not call those things illusions , because without them there was nothing worth having in her life . |
| 4 | Their subsistence was £16 : 5s. : 0d. , but once again there was nothing at settling day indeed , a debt of £2 : 5s. : 4d. was carried on . |
| 5 | There was plenty of tooting going on already . |
| 6 | Gradually , over the years , the colour of the breed became darker through mahogany to black , and there was plenty of crossing to the Hereford for its grazing characteristics and to the Ayrshire to restore milk yields . |
| 7 | There was plenty of crossing with Jerseys and Friesians in the 1960s and 1970s , so that the pure Swedish Mountain is now rare . |
| 8 | The ASI reads from sixty to 600 knots , To its left a twin-pointer rev-counter has needles marked G and D for gauche and droit , indicating similarly enormous numbers up to 25,000 rpm ( ten times a piston engine 's revs ) — and no , I never did work out which was which without stopping to translate . |
| 9 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 10 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 11 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 12 | He it was who by crowning Otto at Aachen had plunged the papacy into trouble . |
| 13 | Kirkley thought it was something worth looking into . |
| 14 | His curtain could be seen from the square and it was something worth looking at . |
| 15 | He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up . |
| 16 | She found she was trembling , not with fear but with excitement , there was something about helping the most unusual villain she 'd ever seen that stirred unknown feelings deep within her . |
| 17 | It was something about wishing she had the power to control conversations . |
| 18 | As far as she could remember , it was something about jumping out of the thing you cook in and into the thing you cooked on . |
| 19 | There was something about seeing him that way , first thing in the morning , dressed as she 'd never seen him before , in a cotton knit shirt and snug , faded jeans , that had made her throat tighten . |
| 20 | There was something about battling with him that made her feel unlike herself — weak , her mind in total confusion . |
| 21 | It was something about losing a baby … |
| 22 | Sue Strudwick was one behind having birdied the dog-leg third and the ninth . |
| 23 | But then if he did , what was there worth living for ? |
| 24 | He made sure I knew it was him by flicking on his interior light and waving me towards him . |
| 25 | Corbett forgot about those around him so intent was he on watching the water . |
| 26 | He had used her Christian name without even realising it , so intent was he on pinning down the details of his own remembrance . |
| 27 | Max Beerbohm described Irving as having ‘ an incomparable power for eeriness , for stirring a dim sense of mystery ; and not less masterly was he in invoking a dim sense of horror ’ . |
| 28 | The next question was invariably , ‘ What was it with regard to ? ’ |
| 29 | Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ? |
| 30 | Was it worth aiming for this position ? |