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"was" Practice Lesson
"was" Practice Dutch lesson
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a branch that was as thick as a python
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After he’d been at the festival, he had problems with his hearing.
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After the fire, there was a lot of ash.
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All the windows were brightly lit, and it smelled wonderfully of goose roast; because it was New Years Eve.
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Almost everyone was late.
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Although he was sick, he still went to school.
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and up there, there was no cold, nor hunger, nor fear, they would be with God!
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And what was more beautiful to see
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And whose idea was that?
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And yet she said she was a true princess.
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but she had poor eyesight, and therefore she thought, that this duckling must be a fat duck, who had got lost
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But the poor duckling that had hatched last and looked so ugly was bitten, bumped and fooled by both the ducks and the chickens.
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By the way, did you find the umbrella you lost recently?
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Didn’t you know Tom was married?
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Every effort was in vain.
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everyone was moody and short-tempered
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everyone was tense
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for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who had now passed away, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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for it was New Year’s Eve.
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For sure, her father would beat her, and at home it was also cold.
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