Example sentences of "[was/were] something [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And there was something else in the room with her . |
| 3 | It was then that the frozen fighters noticed that there was something else in the pile of wood . |
| 4 | There was something else in the alley . |
| 5 | There was something ahead of the shuttle . |
| 6 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |