Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he saw there were none he sighed , ‘ What will not malice and slander invent ? ’ |
| 2 | As there were none he himself asked if the report was to be a public report . |
| 3 | The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government . |
| 4 | He stayed on in the room but there was nothing he could do but withdraw . |
| 5 | There was nothing he could say , nothing he could do . |
| 6 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 7 | McLeish saw that she was crying again , but decided coldly there was nothing he was going to do and trudged wearily back to the lift , the morning 's cheerfulness totally evaporated . |
| 8 | There was nothing he could do about it . |
| 9 | She had seemed so smitten , he assumed there was nothing he could do that would really offend her . |
| 10 | There was nothing he could do . |
| 11 | There was nothing he could do — it was saved or not . |
| 12 | There was nothing he could do , no way of getting a message to Caspar at the US Embassy . |
| 13 | There was nothing he could do to save George Vicente Brown . |
| 14 | He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse … |
| 15 | After all , there was nothing he could do to help Maidstone now . |
| 16 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |
| 17 | Burt made two more fine saves to deny Wells and Daynes , but there was nothing he could do to stop ‘ Mill 's third after 70 minutes . |
| 18 | He knew he was doomed and there was nothing he could do about it . |
| 19 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 20 | Parker too , he had heard the men and there was nothing he could do . |
| 21 | If so , there was nothing he could do for the moment . |
| 22 | He knew there was nothing he could say . |
| 23 | Augustine recognized that Paul 's words touched everything : there was nothing he had which he had not received . |
| 24 | She had joined forces with her shiftless family : they were ranged against him , and there was nothing he could do . |
| 25 | There was nothing he might not be able to do . |
| 26 | He knew what was on her mind , but there was nothing he could say to ease the uncertainty she must be feeling . |
| 27 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 28 | But there was nothing he could do . |
| 29 | Black Wolf he was called , and there was nothing he would not do to make the Russian Empire the greatest the world had ever known . |
| 30 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |