Example sentences of "there was [adv] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away .
2 There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat .
3 Well perhaps there was n't room for her sit in the back !
4 And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school .
5 Yes , there was probably room for us all .
6 There was scarcely room for one inside the cubicle , let alone two .
7 When I visited Aunt Louise there was just time for us to have a meal in one of the High Street cafés before I caught the bus home .
8 You had to sit up straight and there was barely room for your knees .
9 Though to be honest , there was hardly room for her leg in there .
10 Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do .
11 There was still food for them to eat and Mrs Rundle was still there .
12 There was only room for one at the top and he was it .
13 Needless to say there was only room for one .
14 But there was always room for one more in the Conspiracy hunt .
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