Example sentences of "there [was/were] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brick suburbs gave way to big wooden houses , then single-storey houses which became more and more isolated until there was nothing but grizzled , frozen marsh . |
| 2 | Karen would n't commit adultery behind Dennis 's back , but there was nothing that excited her more than doing it under his nose . |
| 3 | But there there was n't , mm , well there was nothing that seemed immediately er relevant I must say , but |
| 4 | There was nothing that corresponds to modern social security , except charity and relief from actual destitution , and sometimes little of either . |
| 5 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 6 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 7 | But it , there was something that felt right . |
| 8 | is your faculties that know , if there was something that went out it would n't be conscious would it , it 'd be unconscious , so you would n't actually be conscious , you 're conscious is your brain working with your body , working with your mind and everything , it 's , that 's why you 're conscious , when you 're |
| 9 | so if there was something that went out you would n't actually to be able to physically see where where you 're going |
| 10 | But there was something that took my attention one night , on one of the shop windows , and I was flashing the torch on the window and he comes up . |
| 11 | But there was something that did n't fit . |
| 12 | There was something that did n't fit . |
| 13 | Our mothers are cousins , and there was something that happened way back when they were children — my mother saved David 's mother 's life , or something . |
| 14 | If ever there was anything that looked made up of outsides , it was a plane flying . |
| 15 | Two or three times a week Brownies would call at Sundial Cottage to see if there was anything that needed doing — and there usually was . |
| 16 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 17 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |