Example sentences of "was [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. I wanted to get into something where there was no-one telling me what to do all the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was nothing to link them directly to Zoser . ’ |
| 6 | There was nothing holding him here , except … |
| 7 | There was nothing holding her together . |
| 8 | Shadows appeared where there was nothing to cause them . |
| 9 | There was nothing stopping her . |
| 10 | There was nothing stopping him . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | There was nothing to remind him of Eileen . |
| 13 | And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods . |
| 14 | She justified her departure on the grounds that , with arrangements for Maurice 's funeral on Monday now in place , there was nothing to detain her at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 15 | There was nothing to stop him . |
| 16 | It occurred to him that if she belonged to Gary , there was nothing to stop him taking a sort of family ownership too . |
| 17 | And there was nothing to stop him just walking off . |
| 18 | He might be annoyed for a moment to find his prey had fled , but there was nothing to stop him simply making the best of a bad job and having a weekend 's skiing . |
| 19 | Well there was nothing to stop him by now , there were two weights , there was the wardrobe sliding down the stairs and the man on top of it . |
| 20 | There was nothing to stop them for , and the brush-off had at least been done politely . |
| 21 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 22 | Er er certainly in retrospect one , one might argue that erm politically there was nothing to stop them |
| 23 | There was nothing to stop me . |
| 24 | … Nobody bothered about what you were doing and there was nothing to stop you getting on your feet and denouncing the whole of the British Empire ’ ( pp. 48 — 9 ) . |
| 25 | I used to before — when there was nothing bothering me . " |
| 26 | Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off , past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure . |
| 27 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 28 | They heard no more from behind them and as the small amount of sky they could see between the tree-tops was clouded over there was nothing to give them direction . |
| 29 | There was nothing to support it , no face at a window , no movement of a curtain , but when Mr Hollins knocked on the front door it opened immediately . |
| 30 | Instead of complying with this order , the government ‘ distilled the specific accusations ’ it had identified in Aviv 's report and instructed each of the Federal agencies to respond to that ‘ distillation ’ with declarations that there was nothing to support it . |