Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There were plenty in the Store .
2 And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur .
3 And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him .
4 Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution .
5 Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite .
6 The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left .
7 There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray .
8 Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard .
9 There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March .
10 This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use .
11 There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed .
12 Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay .
13 Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today .
14 There were none of the comforts we take for granted now .
15 As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone .
16 ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel .
17 There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape .
18 There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations .
19 She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice .
20 But there was nothing of the old maid about her .
21 Oh no there was nothing of the kind no .
22 There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder
23 the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before
24 There was nothing outside the building — just a bit of rustling in the trees .
25 Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window .
26 He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil .
27 But no one barred the way , no one waved , there was nothing across the road .
28 There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late .
29 There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives .
30 All the studio guys used hopped-up Fenders , and all the rock players used Marshalls , but ultimately there was nothing on the front of the amp that said my name .
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