Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Into most theatrical productions there was somehow woven a patriotic strain ; at the close of a performance celebrating the birth of Molière , Marthe Chenal appeared draped in a tricolor to give a passionate rendering of the Marseillaise ; and at the music halls , a night seldom went by without the singing of the new favourites imported by the British , Tipperary and Rose of Picardy . |
| 2 | There was evidentially speaking a head-on collision between the appellant and the principal prosecution witness . |
| 3 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
| 4 | Taylor converted a penalty for Shortheath 's goal , but there was no stopping the Hollywater side . |
| 5 | They had placed linen wadding soaked in water around her to keep her body cool , but despite the attentions of the attendants there was no stopping the persistent flies , and although it was still early enough in the season of shemu for the sun 's heat to be mild , her face was already puffy . |
| 6 | Families were close — there was no shunting the old people aside as can happen in Northern Europe . |
| 7 | Where they stood , barely a mile from the aircraft 's final resting place , there was no escaping a muted collective anger — directed as much at seemingly complacent airport authorities and governments as at the perpetrators of mass murder a year ago . |
| 8 | Fran did n't want to look at him , did n't want to turn her head and see the anger in those dark eyes , but there was no escaping the powerful force that drew her . |
| 9 | But she found there was no escaping the front line … |
| 10 | In any case , there was no escaping the next move . |
| 11 | There was no disputing the hard truth behind his words — someting for which she had already severely upbraided herself . |
| 12 | It was half past one before they got back to Rose Cottage and there was no denying a brisk long country walk built up the appetite . |
| 13 | If he discovered a new rule he would immediately seek a way of breaking it , and I had assumed that he would have some sympathy with those who flouted the laws against drugs , yet there was no denying the genuine anger in his voice when he talked of cocaine . |
| 14 | This time there was no denying the speculative gleam in his eye as he studied her figure through the folds of the towelling robe . |
| 15 | He stopped on the top step to look down at her , and there was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes now . |
| 16 | He found her attractive ; all her efforts had not been in vain , there was no mistaking the sensuous gleam in his eyes , the predatory twist of his smile that told Robyn exactly how he 'd like the evening to end . |
| 17 | There was no mistaking the deep voice at the other end . |
| 18 | He had always been small but now seemed quite shrunken , though still erect in bearing and in neatly pressed charcoal-grey suit and shining shoes dapper in his dress ; but there was no mistaking the ferret-like face , the money-box slit of a mouth and the blue , commanding eyes . |
| 19 | There was no mistaking the deadly effectiveness of the British blockade . |
| 20 | But as it came closer there was no mistaking the great leafy bird which flew across the road and disappeared over the top of the hill . |
| 21 | There was no mistaking the sudden anger in his deep voice , and despite herself Fran took a step back , feeling a tiny tremor running through her limbs . |
| 22 | But there was no mistaking the soft fragility of the body beneath his , or the fragrant silkiness of the long tresses brushing across his throat as she tried to turn her head . |
| 23 | He was smiling , but there was no mistaking the harsh displeasure in his eyes . |
| 24 | There was no mistaking the grim displeasure in Luke 's voice , and Mrs Lewis nodded nervously . |
| 25 | THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces . |
| 26 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 27 | As a result such homosexuality as there was usually took a repressed form . |