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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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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 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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Didn’t you know Tom was married?
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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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Gustav was so distracted early this morning that he accidentally put on two different socks.
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he made more noise than was wise
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He thought about how he had been persecuted and despised, and now he heard them all say he was the most beautiful of all the birds.
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he was
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He was a very wise, rich and powerful king.
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he was angry that I hadn’t done it
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