Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] else [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 2 | There was nothing else on the body . |
| 3 | There was nothing else on that sheet . |
| 4 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 5 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 6 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 7 | There was nothing else for them — just the workhouse and dependence on charity . |
| 8 | There was nothing else for it , she would have to apologise . |
| 9 | There was nothing else for Sir John to do but marry again ; unfortunately , he died before he could accomplish this . |
| 10 | Emily covered her eyes , it would be so humiliating , selling everything she held dear , but there was nothing else for it , it would have to be done . |
| 11 | Now there was nothing else for it . |
| 12 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 13 | She dried cups , saucers and plates on a soaking cloth for there was nothing else for her to do . |
| 14 | Once he had heard of Charlotte 's predicament , however — explained to him in a quiet corner of the Beau Nash Tavern , Mount Ephraim — he realized there was nothing else for it . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew you 'd like me to ask them , ’ she said eventually , since there was nothing else for it . |
| 16 | Taking her sister 's hand , she found there was nothing else for it , but she must press to the point . |
| 17 | There was nothing else for it . |
| 18 | So there was nothing else for it but Rule of Life No 4 : Never hit a man when he 's down ; run over him . |
| 19 | There was nothing else for us you know . |
| 20 | There was nothing else to be done . |
| 21 | With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done . |
| 22 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 23 | After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then . |
| 24 | " There was nothing else to be learned from Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 25 | ‘ I loved Thunderbirds — it was just such a weird TV programme — there was nothing else like it . |
| 26 | It was a passing glimpse , since there was nothing else from the chest down , his pull spinning the lightened torso around , almost weightless in the water . |
| 27 | ‘ There was nothing else in the diaries ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We got to the stage where we thought that there was nothing else in life , ’ shudders Paul . |
| 30 | ‘ Presumably our visitor did n't have to pour this out to see there was nothing else in the bottle . |