Example sentences of "there was [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 2 | Mm , there used to be the Cardoma almost opposite here , it was an enormous cafe downstairs and an upstairs , and when that went there was nothing to replace it |
| 3 | And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods . |
| 4 | Shadows appeared where there was nothing to cause them . |
| 5 | She justified her departure on the grounds that , with arrangements for Maurice 's funeral on Monday now in place , there was nothing to detain her at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 6 | There was nothing to stop him . |
| 7 | It occurred to him that if she belonged to Gary , there was nothing to stop him taking a sort of family ownership too . |
| 8 | And there was nothing to stop him just walking off . |
| 9 | He might be annoyed for a moment to find his prey had fled , but there was nothing to stop him simply making the best of a bad job and having a weekend 's skiing . |
| 10 | Well there was nothing to stop him by now , there were two weights , there was the wardrobe sliding down the stairs and the man on top of it . |
| 11 | There was nothing to stop me . |
| 12 | There was nothing to stop them for , and the brush-off had at least been done politely . |
| 13 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
| 14 | Er er certainly in retrospect one , one might argue that erm politically there was nothing to stop them |
| 15 | … Nobody bothered about what you were doing and there was nothing to stop you getting on your feet and denouncing the whole of the British Empire ’ ( pp. 48 — 9 ) . |
| 16 | I used to before — when there was nothing bothering me . " |
| 17 | There was nothing to mark his existence . |
| 18 | There was nothing to remind him of Eileen . |
| 19 | There was nothing stopping her . |
| 20 | There was nothing stopping him . |
| 21 | There was nothing to link them directly to Zoser . ’ |
| 22 | There was nothing holding her together . |
| 23 | There was nothing holding him here , except … |
| 24 | There was nothing to support it , no face at a window , no movement of a curtain , but when Mr Hollins knocked on the front door it opened immediately . |
| 25 | Instead of complying with this order , the government ‘ distilled the specific accusations ’ it had identified in Aviv 's report and instructed each of the Federal agencies to respond to that ‘ distillation ’ with declarations that there was nothing to support it . |
| 26 | Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off , past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure . |
| 27 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 28 | I did touch them one time you see but of course there was nothing doing he wan me ! |
| 29 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 30 | Now there was nothing to keep them apart and soon Jenna was too lost in love to remember where she was . |