Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] else " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without thinking , as though there were nothing else she could do , she slipped her hand in under her thick shirt . |
| 2 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 3 | There was nothing else to be done . |
| 4 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 5 | He had tried to forgive her ; there was nothing else he could do . |
| 6 | The stewards inquired into the running of Yahoo and accepted Tom Morgan 's explanation that : ‘ He lost his action and did n't feel right and there was nothing else I could do but pull him up . ’ |
| 7 | There was nothing else considered to be OK . |
| 8 | There was nothing else he could think of to say . |
| 9 | How could she , how could she not remember , there was nothing else to think of , nothing to get in her way , to confuse her . |
| 10 | ‘ I loved Thunderbirds — it was just such a weird TV programme — there was nothing else like it . |
| 11 | With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done . |
| 12 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 13 | So there was nothing else to do then but head for the Vareyoc Café and try to relax . |
| 14 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 15 | ‘ There was nothing else in the diaries ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
| 17 | I was doubtful , but there was nothing else , so I tore a plastic bag into pieces , fixed these in place , and began to screw on the cylinder . |
| 18 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 19 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was nothing else for them — just the workhouse and dependence on charity . |
| 22 | And now there was nothing else he could say . |
| 23 | ‘ We got to the stage where we thought that there was nothing else in life , ’ shudders Paul . |
| 24 | He inevitably became a sunset watcher ; there was nothing else to do . |
| 25 | There was nothing else for it , she would have to apologise . |
| 26 | Hubert bowed his head and said he was aware of it ; but that there was nothing else he wanted to do . |
| 27 | There was nothing else for Sir John to do but marry again ; unfortunately , he died before he could accomplish this . |
| 28 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was effectively put in a no-win situation … there was nothing else I could do , ’ he said . |
| 30 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |