Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 2 | There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour . |
| 3 | Incidentally , there was nothing for him from Paris this month . |
| 4 | There was nothing for him to do now until Kynaston had finished . |
| 5 | There was nothing for him to say . |
| 6 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 8 | There was nothing for him to do but play cards , which was allowed . |
| 9 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 10 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 11 | There was nothing about him that was n't unpleasant . |
| 12 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 13 | There was nothing under him but thin air and the abyss of bankruptcy . |
| 14 | There was nothing on him but an extraordinary collection of live ammunition — rifle bullets . " |
| 15 | And erm they started to develop the land all round Joe 's cos there was nothing behind him , only fields . |
| 16 | His voice had a hollow echo to it , as if there was nothing inside him . |
| 17 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 18 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 19 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 20 | But there was something about him which he attributed to finding the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | There was something about him that set him apart from the other men in the room . |
| 22 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 23 | But for all his new acquaintance 's mildness there was something about him that made Hugh uneasy , and for the life of him he could n't figure out what it was . |
| 24 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 25 | His mouth was wide and well cut , with a deeply indented upper lip , and a decidedly grim set to it , and there was something about him which kept her rigid with tension beneath the covers . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , I ca n't remember his appearance but there was something about him . |
| 27 | And even after Dana had left , there was something of him that remained in Bath , as we were to find out . |
| 28 | It seems extraordinary to say , but it 's as if his emotions were still erm sort of adolescent , as if there was something in him which was never able to reconcile with his intellectual attitudes . |
| 29 | There was nobody with him — and that was odd . |
| 30 | Paula said there was nobody with him but there was : Ronnie Swayne was there . |