Example sentences of "was [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
| 2 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
| 3 | There was no-one else in the building at the time . |
| 4 | Fortunately the holidays had begun and there was no-one about at the time . |
| 5 | There was no-one out in the street and I hurried to my car . |
| 6 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 7 | There was nothing else on the body . |
| 8 | It was a passing glimpse , since there was nothing else from the chest down , his pull spinning the lightened torso around , almost weightless in the water . |
| 9 | ‘ There was nothing else in the diaries ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Presumably our visitor did n't have to pour this out to see there was nothing else in the bottle . |
| 12 | I said there was nothing else in the safe but behind the books there was a cardboard box — rectangular , like a shoe box , but longer . ’ |
| 13 | Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . |
| 14 | There was nothing here for the average tourist , nothing for my friends Jim and Mary , who go off every year on a package tour . |
| 15 | There was nothing here except the field and the old disused pillbox Cawthorne had warned us about . |
| 16 | There was nothing out of the ordinary here , just the usual chairs and trays of instruments and contraptions of tubes and clamps and wires . |
| 17 | He searched the scattered trees that fringed the forest in case an injured rider had struggled to cover , but there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen . |
| 18 | To her it was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 19 | There was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 20 | Even in the depths of her distress Meryl recognised with bitter irony that here was someone else with the facile professional kindness that doctors developed . |
| 21 | If you remember , Hawick said — and he 's not silly — that there was someone else on the scene when he first asked her out . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe it was someone else in the car . ’ |
| 23 | Hector was lying back exhausted , the weak tears creeping shamefully from his ruined eyes , when he suddenly realised there was someone else in the room . |
| 24 | There was someone else in the graveyard , someone who slipped soundlessly behind the church as she watched . |
| 25 | If it 's the latter then there was plenty more at the show to warm any enthusiast 's heart . |
| 26 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 27 | He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they ? |
| 28 | So Ben said , Oh , I 'm terribly sorry he said , there was nobody else on the road and I I I must admit I did n't notice whether I had . |
| 29 | There was nobody else in the area , and there were no other tracks through the reeds . |
| 30 | There was nobody else in the room . |