Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 2 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 3 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 4 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 5 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 6 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 7 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 8 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 9 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 10 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |
| 11 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 12 | ‘ There was nothing outside the building — just a bit of rustling in the trees . |
| 13 | But no one barred the way , no one waved , there was nothing across the road . |
| 14 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 15 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |
| 16 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 17 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 18 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 19 | All the studio guys used hopped-up Fenders , and all the rock players used Marshalls , but ultimately there was nothing on the front of the amp that said my name . |
| 20 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 21 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 22 | For a while there was nothing but the click of ammunition , the scrape of boots , and the stink of Woolley 's rancour . |
| 23 | Beyond the wall there was nothing but the wildwood , a tangle of small oaks and patchy flowers , not yet destroyed by winter . |
| 24 | And then there was nothing but the ruin of the forests and a cloud of dust on the horizon , which drifted away on the breeze . |
| 25 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 26 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 27 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 28 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 29 | But there was nothing in the boot . |
| 30 | But there was nothing in the Budget towards child care , without which such opportunities are meaningless . |