Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if there was no-one in the car and the door was bloody open then |
| 2 | Always worrying you if there was something for the least . |
| 3 | A's defence on the latter ground would of course be assisted if there was something in the shed worth stealing . |
| 4 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 5 | Did at least 50% of those interviewed state that they would buy the products mentioned from a hypermarket if there was one in the area ? |
| 6 | It can be done also while the train is moving , which is why we want to know if there was anyone in the dome car who was unknown to you all . |
| 7 | If there was anyone in the world who could match Marvin drink for drink it was Richard Burton . |
| 8 | If there was anyone in the twentieth century to resolve the dilemma , repeat the Beowulf -poet 's masterpiece of compromise , and preserve ‘ the permanent value of that pietas which treasures the memory of man 's struggles in the dark past , man fallen and not yet saved , disgraced but not dethroned ’ ( ‘ Monsters ’ , p. 266 ) , Tolkien must have thought it should be himself . |
| 9 | Mr Templeton said he had asked the man if there was anyone in the building . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said . |
| 11 | One 's impetus was such that , provided there was nothing in the way , one would be carried through Bridge Street , right over Patrick 's Bridge , and halfway into Patrick 's Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , before having to put foot to pedal once more . |
| 12 | Unless there was one in the back wall , he would have to abandon the entire exercise . |
| 13 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 14 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 15 | However , because all the cards bearing messages of sympathy had been removed , exactly who had sent flowers other than his immediate family , and whether there was one from the infamous Kray twins , must remain a mystery to all but the Thompsons themselves . |
| 16 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 17 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 18 | PC Fraser said he again had asked Sutherland whether there was anyone in the house and Sutherland had replied that there was not . |
| 19 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 20 | To assert that , quite apart from the above factors , natural justice could be satisfied even though there was nothing in the nature of a hearing at all would be to denude the concept of all content . |
| 21 | Then a lot of girders arrived , by the monthly cargo ship , the Lumba ( meaning ‘ dolphin' , though there was nothing in the least sleek about its ugly , orange-streaked lines ) . |
| 22 | After a week Harry returned to Maurice , once again when there was no-one on the boat , took away his consignment of hairdryers , and threw the lantern and the paving-stones overboard . |