Example sentences of "was [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years ago there was no-one to defend the accused except state lawyers . |
| 2 | There was nothing to stop the guy carrying out his threat to put the husband wise about Laura 's past . |
| 3 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 4 | Det Ch Insp Roy Lambert said there was nothing to connect the two men with the car . |
| 5 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 6 | Here , there was nothing to disturb the silence but birdsong . |
| 7 | Yet there was nothing to disturb the peace of the morning except the noise of their own engine . |
| 8 | There was nothing explaining the makeup of the organisation which all of us were so desperately trying to join . |
| 9 | Even where there was only one purchaser , there was nothing to identify the particular cases of wine in stock as the subject-matter of the purchaser 's contract . |
| 10 | A lot of them leave and collect messages there , so there was nothing to blame the owner for . |
| 11 | She prayed there was nothing coming the other way . |
| 12 | For over four hundred metres there was nothing separating the new driveage from the caved in section apart from some wooden props . |
| 13 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 14 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 15 | There was nothing to suggest the two events were linked . |
| 16 | A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said there was nothing to suggest the two men who chased the youth were involved in the attack on Mr Ali . |
| 17 | In 1982 , he sacked on the spot several high-ranking officials for failing to maintain an adequate food supply to the main market in Bucharest — as if it was their fault that there was nothing to show the General-Secretary when he put in a surprise inspection visit . |
| 18 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 19 | Mr Patten , speaking at question time in the Commons , told Mr Anthony Beaumont-Dark ( C. Selly Oak ) that there was nothing to prevent the current investigation into the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad looking into ‘ any other matter … if there are grounds for suspicion ’ . |
| 20 | Kerr L.J. , after an extended consideration of Commonwealth and European developments , expressly held that , in appropriate cases , there was nothing to prevent the grant of injunctions extending to assets outside the jurisdiction . |
| 21 | On that occasion , the plaintiff asked her if she thought that Mr. Perot would increase the offer : she told him that her feeling was that he would not , but that certainly there was nothing to prevent the plaintiff from making a counter-offer . |
| 22 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 23 | We have already noted Keynes 's anxiety over his system being ‘ one equation short ’ in the sense that there was nothing to anchor the level of money wages and the absolute price level . |
| 24 | There was me thinking the place was yours too . |
| 25 | So powerless was I to control the evolution that , even when I very much wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway it proved all but impossible to do so . |
| 26 | ‘ It was I sent the boy out after his act of vindication . |
| 27 | Was I smelling the trees … or something else ? |
| 28 | But I remember I 'd got a box on my mantlepiece erm not only was I using the pessaries but I was also taking these when the period was due . |
| 29 | Had I left the Golden Turk to commit murder , or was I telling the truth about being drugged and placed in Ralemberg 's garden after the dreadful crimes had been committed ? |
| 30 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |