Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [art] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 2 | I saw this block one sunny August afternoon and although there was no one in sight , there was a murmur of music and children 's voices through windows . |
| 3 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |
| 4 | Our first erm priority was to establish that there was no one in that room . |
| 5 | With as much dignity as she could muster Sophie stood up , and as he came from behind his desk to open the door she saw thankfully that there was no one in the surgery . |
| 6 | The house was silent and there was no one in it , and yet all the furniture was still in place . |
| 7 | But there was no written record of his life or death , or of the reasons for his resistance ; and there was no one in the community who still remembered him . |
| 8 | She was unmarried , and there was no one in prospect as far as I know . |
| 9 | Yeah , then the , the old man and about three or four of these N C O's , he was senior N C O , sort of , sort of corporal and the rest of them were corporal and lance corporal 's , but he was the one in charged of the |