Example sentences of "was [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With those last two straws cast upon the water , there was nothing more Manville could do except wait and hope . |
| 2 | Backstage , drying off with a towel , he asked : ‘ Was I any good ? ’ |
| 3 | It was somebody else Robert who was in there already . |
| 4 | In a tribute , West Ham United FC said Bobby Moore was their greatest-ever player . |
| 5 | Since being born in Carlisle 25 years ago , he has come steadily south to realise his cricket potential : from Cumberland ( at 20 , he was their youngest-ever cap ) , briefly via 2nd XI cricket in Lancashire and Worcestershire , to Warwickshire . |
| 6 | There was everything any guest could want . |
| 7 | This was something else Peter had n't told her . |
| 8 | This was something else Clive had been less than truthful about . |
| 9 | ( Counter-suggestibility was something else Waugh and Orwell had in common . ) |
| 10 | In the fifties and sixties g-force was something only fighter pilots worried about . |
| 11 | as if it was something only experience could teach , he advised , ‘ If they have a gun or a knife , whatever you 've got , hand it over . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to think it was something only mum came out with . |
| 13 | Just watch , I 'll put the Teletext on , out of all the races there was one there King 's Fountain , first , it had , it had only just come first and I 'd switched it on , I went wow |
| 14 | Was there just Mr or were there |
| 15 | And yet such an Englishman must wonder : Was there once virtue in England , which subsequently went out of her ? |
| 16 | Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer . |
| 17 | Nor was there much evidence elsewhere , even before the open disturbances of the late 1980s , that non-Russian nationalities were merging their identity into that of a greater Soviet community . |
| 18 | Nor was there much inclination in France to pursue an active military policy . |
| 19 | Federal laws governing hazardous waste were not then in effect , nor was there much money to clean up tips . |
| 20 | Nor was there much room for individual initiative . |
| 21 | ‘ Was there never sign of a boat having put over from Parfois by night ? |
| 22 | And Mike ; was he still kind , gentle ? |
| 23 | Was he any good ? ’ |
| 24 | Was it just shyness ? |
| 25 | Was it just possessiveness , wanting it all , all of me , or … ? |
| 26 | Or was it just noises in the skull ? |
| 27 | Was it just kind of like a dance ? |
| 28 | Was it just entrepreneur 's hype that had made him say ‘ do n't want to ’ rather than ‘ ca n't ’ ? |
| 29 | ‘ And was it just coincidence that I get invited to the Flaxton dance , that I 'm seated next to him ? |
| 30 | ‘ Was it just retirement ? ’ |