Example sentences of "but there [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was somebody in in the street where I lived , who was a spiv , and he was considered to be the black sheep of the family , did n't quite fit in when everybody else did . |
| 2 | This had been her room since she was six years old but there was nothing of hers in it . |
| 3 | The room was tidy enough , after a fashion , but there was nothing of value on the mantelpiece and not one stick of furniture that would n't have been better employed on a bonfire . |
| 4 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 5 | He could have sworn that he had heard yet another vehicle out there , as if he in turn were being followed , but there was nothing to be seen . |
| 6 | But there was nothing to be said . |
| 7 | We were examining the homework , sorting through the usual kind of difficulty but there was nothing to amiss , until we came to a light green garment . |
| 8 | I had a damp cigarette in the shelter of a doorway — but there was nothing to be gained by hanging about here and I set off , squelching at every step , along the road to Shiel Bridge . |
| 9 | But there was nothing to be gained by challenging him now . |
| 10 | " Is this all the fortune the Dawn Maiden has sent me ? " he thought , but there was nothing to be done ; he took her for his wife . |
| 11 | But there was nothing to be done ; Goibniu had made it a request that Floy and Snodgrass travel to the Fire Court leaving Fenella alone . |
| 12 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 13 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 14 | But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed . |
| 15 | We were well aware of him stifling cries of pain , but there was nothing for it but to proceed . |
| 16 | But there was nothing for him to see . |
| 17 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 18 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 19 | I wondered about their lives ; but there was nothing on which to speculate . |
| 20 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 21 | Ranulf came up and expertly went through their wallets and pockets but there was nothing except a few coins . |
| 22 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 23 | She fumbled around her feet again , but there was nothing but crumbs and scraps of wrapper . |
| 24 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 25 | He looked as if he hoped Connors might come to his aid again , but there was nothing from that quarter . |
| 26 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 27 | The Tolkien children were invited to swim and punt on Lewis 's lake at The Kilns , but there was nothing in the way of a ‘ family friendship ’ between the two . |
| 28 | The exact shade was kept secret until yesterday 's parade at the equivalent of the Army and Navy Club , but there was nothing in camouflage manuals to describe the exact tint . |
| 29 | Her stomach clenched like a fist , but there was nothing in there to come up . |
| 30 | But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her . |