Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 2 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
| 3 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
| 4 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
| 5 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 6 | There was nothing else on the body . |
| 7 | It was a passing glimpse , since there was nothing else from the chest down , his pull spinning the lightened torso around , almost weightless in the water . |
| 8 | ‘ Presumably our visitor did n't have to pour this out to see there was nothing else in the bottle . |
| 9 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
| 10 | Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . |
| 11 | There was nothing here except the field and the old disused pillbox Cawthorne had warned us about . |
| 12 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 13 | There was someone else in the graveyard , someone who slipped soundlessly behind the church as she watched . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe it was someone else in the car . ’ |
| 15 | Hector was lying back exhausted , the weak tears creeping shamefully from his ruined eyes , when he suddenly realised there was someone else in the room . |
| 16 | If it 's the latter then there was plenty more at the show to warm any enthusiast 's heart . |
| 17 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 18 | So Ben said , Oh , I 'm terribly sorry he said , there was nobody else on the road and I I I must admit I did n't notice whether I had . |
| 19 | He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they ? |
| 20 | There was nobody else in the room . |
| 21 | There was nobody else in the room . |
| 22 | There was nobody else in the area , and there were no other tracks through the reeds . |
| 23 | ‘ Standard operating procedure , ’ Husband said , quickly smoothing over Sim 's full-frontal use of the word ‘ money ’ , even though there was nobody there from the Treasury to hear it . |
| 24 | Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind . |
| 25 | It was then that the frozen fighters noticed that there was something else in the pile of wood . |
| 26 | There was something else in the alley . |
| 27 | And there was something else in the room with her . |
| 28 | There was something ahead of the shuttle . |
| 29 | After all , there was something almost like a brother about him and he was a near neighbour . |
| 30 | Was anyone else in the dream ? ’ |