Example sentences of "that there [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disgusted , Douglas shouted that there were plenty of trees on the village green to hang all these , and ordered the sad crew to be herded back to their burning homes . |
| 2 | But as the days passed , she discovered that there were plenty of people willing to console her . |
| 3 | Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory . |
| 4 | The Warden pointed out the most likely spot for short-eared owls on the hunt for stranded voles , told us that there were plenty of field fare about , and said it was a good year for ruff . |
| 5 | Everyone knew that there were plenty of smaller access points from Vadinamia 's interior to its surface . |
| 6 | We know that there were plenty of other animal groups around , but in that period the trilobites seem to have dominated almost everywhere . |
| 7 | He reminded me that there were plenty in his early lifetime . |
| 8 | They discovered that there were lots of things that would make the ‘ wrong ’ sort of leaf develop . |
| 9 | I was trying to pretend that there were lots of people loving us there . |
| 10 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 11 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 12 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 13 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 14 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 15 | So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work . |
| 16 | You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water . |
| 17 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 18 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 19 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 20 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 21 | After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side . |
| 22 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 23 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |
| 24 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 25 | The charge alleges that although he knew Mr Buckley , of Prince Regent Street , Leith , had been trapped after the blast , Sutherland pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one in the house . |
| 26 | But Dalgliesh had n't needed his private source of department gossip to know that there was nothing of this limp subservience about Paul Berowne . |
| 27 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 28 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 29 | At length she decided that there was nothing to be gained by worrying her . |
| 30 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |