Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Moore , prosecuting , said there was no-one with the families . |
| 2 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 3 | After a week Harry returned to Maurice , once again when there was no-one on the boat , took away his consignment of hairdryers , and threw the lantern and the paving-stones overboard . |
| 4 | But today there was no-one at the office which appeared to have been burgled . |
| 5 | There was no-one by the lakeside : the wind cuffed the water lightly and took the murmurs of the crowd behind her yet further away . |
| 6 | After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was no-one in the room at the time for Murray had only newly lit the fire and the table was still unlaid apart from the great branching candelabra like silver trees . |
| 9 | ‘ There was no-one in the car and cattle had churned the ground so much that we could not with certainty detect footprints in the vicinity of the car 's entry into the water . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I mean if there was no-one in the car and the door was bloody open then |
| 12 | But no one barred the way , no one waved , there was nothing across the road . |
| 13 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 14 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 15 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through , the ticking of the clock , the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand . |
| 18 | And then there was nothing but the ruin of the forests and a cloud of dust on the horizon , which drifted away on the breeze . |
| 19 | For a while there was nothing but the click of ammunition , the scrape of boots , and the stink of Woolley 's rancour . |
| 20 | Beyond the wall there was nothing but the wildwood , a tangle of small oaks and patchy flowers , not yet destroyed by winter . |
| 21 | If that perimeter was broken , there was still the Gemioncourt farm by the ford which could be an anchor to a defensive line , but once Gemioncourt was captured there was nothing between the French and the crossroads . |
| 22 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 23 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 24 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 25 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 27 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 28 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 29 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 30 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |