Example sentences of "there was [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 2 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 3 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 4 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 5 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 6 | There was nothing the matter with his features . |
| 7 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 8 | He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it . |
| 9 | There was something the doctor could n't move on my chest — what he thought was consumption . |
| 10 | There was something wrong , there was something the matter . |
| 11 | er nothing sunk that there was something the matter |
| 12 | A Durham miner 's daughter ‘ could shout down the passage and me grandma would soon know if there was anything the matter with us . ’ |
| 13 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |
| 14 | He came from Wilton ( Wilts. ) , although the family 's residence there was itself the result of a career move by an earlier professional administrator ; they had come originally from the north west . |
| 15 | The words were sharp but there was none the less warmth in the queen-dowager 's voice . |
| 16 | If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France . |