Example sentences of "[vb past] there [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 2 | We are very sorry the train at number eleven platform eleven , when you get to Lemington on it , get out if you 're going to Banbury , there will be a coach , because there 's a fire at Banbury , well I thought it meant there was something on the other side of the railway , it was , a factory near there so , so then er they get you in |
| 3 | In part , it can thank the huge cost of cement works which meant there was none of the rush of new entrants in the boom . |
| 4 | I knew there was something in the wind , has been for weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ Ha ! ’ said Marietta of Patras , ‘ I thought there was something of the brood mare about you . |
| 6 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 7 | Stuart Moore , prosecuting , said there was no-one with the families . |
| 8 | Said there was nowt like the smell of new-mown grass . |