Example sentences of "[conj] there was [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere where there was plenty of social life . |
| 2 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 3 | I then looked at the section of the report headed ’ Economic Impact ’ where there was nothing at all about the damage to the coal industry . |
| 4 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 5 | It was no fault of Harry 's that he had been mistakenly put in the care of such people , although there was nothing to be said against the Pritchetts — a decent , hard-working family — other than their class . |
| 6 | Although there was plenty of loutish and rough behaviour in public by groups of juveniles , there was always a counterbalancing influence within male culture . |
| 7 | It was n't so much the cash , although there was plenty of that ; it was the security boxes that had afforded the biggest haul , the accumulated assets , in gold and precious stones , of hundreds of Americans in England . |
| 8 | But the thought of actual violence never occurred to me , although there was plenty within . |
| 9 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 10 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 11 | So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work . |
| 12 | You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water . |
| 13 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |
| 14 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 15 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 16 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 17 | After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side . |
| 18 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 19 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |
| 20 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 21 | The charge alleges that although he knew Mr Buckley , of Prince Regent Street , Leith , had been trapped after the blast , Sutherland pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one in the house . |
| 22 | But Dalgliesh had n't needed his private source of department gossip to know that there was nothing of this limp subservience about Paul Berowne . |
| 23 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At length she decided that there was nothing to be gained by worrying her . |
| 26 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 27 | By the end of February 1941 , however , Axis interest in the Spanish offer had subsided considerably : Hitler 's attention was focused on the Soviet Union ; Ribbentrop had instructed Stohrer to desist from his attempts to secure active Spanish participation ; and Mussolini had reached the conclusion that there was nothing to be gained by pressing Spain further . |
| 28 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 29 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 30 | Later , Hazel had said that there was nothing for it but to cross the open pasture and under Silver 's direction they had crossed it , with Dandelion running ahead to reconnoitre . |