Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 2 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 3 | alcove and there was one in the one far corner and sitting on the corner together , they were holding hands going every so often he hears . |
| 4 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 5 | Sometimes actually I think ‘ Oh I 'd like to go back to work ’ — to be in that hubbub — because I always worked in the West End and there was something about the atmosphere — being dressed all day … |
| 6 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 7 | And there was something about the girl , with her contemptuous mouth and lolling posture , something strong and indefinable , like a smell , the smell of a bitch on heat . |
| 8 | And there was something about the easy way they were together , evidently in the full flow of conversation , that sent a quick uneasy dart of emotion rushing through her . |
| 9 | He did n't answer at first and there was something about the quality of his silence that caused a flicker of fear to touch her heart . |
| 10 | Miguel stood where she had left him , outlined against the star-studded sky , and there was something about the way he was standing that reminded her of someone else … |
| 11 | Jordi 's head was set beautifully on his broad shoulders , and there was something in the way he held his neck to support that head which was unmistakably intelligent and sexy . |
| 12 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 13 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 14 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 15 | Erm and there was nothing within the development plan system which would preclude this . |
| 16 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |
| 17 | And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway . |
| 18 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 19 | One did not have to oppose the war to oppose its consequences ; and there was nothing in the least unpatriotic about the demands for ‘ equality of sacrifice ’ . |
| 20 | It was probably her most annoying characteristic that in a room full of beauties she would comport herself as one with a right to be there , and there was nothing in the world that anyone could do to disabuse her . |
| 21 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 22 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 23 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 24 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 25 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 26 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 27 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 28 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 29 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 30 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |