Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was impressed , too , by the way Laura dealt with disasters , of which there were plenty at that time . |
| 2 | Well the cooper the cooperage they would have been one at , co 's cooperage and then there were one at 's . |
| 3 | You you you were there were you at school ? |
| 4 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 5 | Not that long ago there was nothing at all on this particular part of Tenerife 's south coast . |
| 6 | There was nothing at all , except Roland 's own need and concern , to suggest that the long letter might be his own letter . |
| 7 | It bore the stamp of a charlatan ; apart from the hint that the fuel was lithium-6 , there was nothing at all to facilitate independent assessment of his ideas and results . |
| 8 | There was nothing at all suitable already there so it would be necessary to build an HQ of our own . |
| 9 | There was nothing at all mysterious about it — just an ordinary heel and toe construction , which concentrates the weight of the putter at either end of the blade . |
| 10 | And so , in spite of our nostalgia for the days when Premier Harold Macmillan declared that Britain had ‘ never had it so good ’ , there was nothing at all unusual in the BMA 's diagnosis of the appalling state of morals in 1961 : |
| 11 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 12 | But there was no crackling static — there was nothing at all . |
| 13 | And there was nothing at all to be afraid of . |
| 14 | There was nothing at all , just woods and empty fields , you know . |
| 15 | Their subsistence was £16 : 5s. : 0d. , but once again there was nothing at settling day indeed , a debt of £2 : 5s. : 4d. was carried on . |
| 16 | She did her best to try and in to make things a little bit more er interesting and she did start a tennis club up , which was nice because there was nothing at all before then . |
| 17 | There was nothing at all . |
| 18 | Now it seemed there was nothing at all to cling to . |
| 19 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 20 | There was nothing at all in his touch but kindness and efficiency but she had to bite into her lip to stifle the urge to stroke the dark head that bent close to her and his hands on her skin sent melting sensations through her that utterly drowned out any slight pain from the sharp stones . |
| 21 | When it came , there was nothing at all ominous in the reason for Christian 's unexpected visit … but it was none the less a bombshell . |
| 22 | I then looked at the section of the report headed ’ Economic Impact ’ where there was nothing at all about the damage to the coal industry . |
| 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 | But today there was no-one at the office which appeared to have been burgled . |
| 25 | It was like that game where you were blindfolded and spun round , and then you had to try and touch someone , Creed and the Skull , they were close one moment , then they were dancing out of reach , and nothing would sound like anything when he played it back , it would sound like interference , nonsense , silence , but he stayed with it , trips to the bathroom to sluice his nose and throat , more trips to replace the tapes , because he sensed they were leading up to something , there was something at the end of this rainbow of places , not gold but something . |
| 26 | There was something at St Michael 's but I did n't know it was the one world week . |
| 27 | I thought that there was something at the appraisal though there was supposed to . |
| 28 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 29 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 30 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |