Example sentences of "be [verb] that there was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |
| 2 | Now he seemed to be implying that there was something immoral in how she earned her living . |
| 3 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
| 4 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 5 | I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not . |
| 6 | It is understood that there was nothing contentious on the agenda . |
| 7 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 8 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 9 | The previous section depicted all sorts of situations in which it would be natural to describe animals or human babies as recognising something — names , parents , fellow-creatures , their own bodies ( but not their ‘ self ’ ) — and it was concluded that there was nothing out of order in so doing . |
| 10 | Erm and when it was established that there was something serious here to question , they went and arrested him . |
| 11 | Erm I , I somehow felt that that 's what she was feeling that there was something like that lacking . |