Example sentences of "that there was [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future .
2 The faint gay menace of music , issuing from juke boxes and radios , surrounded her , and it seemed that there was nobody , out of all those hundreds before her gaze , who was not there in the search of amusement — an amusement shallow , elusive , shapeless , all-embracing .
3 But the thing I hated most was that there was nobody there .
4 So after a quick glance behind him to check that there was nobody coming in on his blind side from the corridor , he crossed to his locker and pointed to the bulge in its door .
5 So that there was nobody skipped .
6 The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ?
7 PC Fraser said Sutherland had added that there was nobody inside .
8 It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about .
9 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 .
10 So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work .
11 You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side .
17 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 .
18 When she reached the school gate she discovered that there was no-one there .
19 At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide .
20 And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ?
21 Nenna felt sure that there was no-one that it could be but Edward .
22 Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them .
23 Bernard Buckley had been trapped under rubble after an explosion destroyed the house , but James Sutherland had pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one inside , it was claimed in court .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Mr Buckley died under tons of rubble but the jury deleted from the charge an allegation that after staggering clear , Sutherland had pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one inside .
27 ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born .
28 As far as I was concerned , reading was an automatic skill rather than an indication of superior intelligence or understanding , and no one but myself seemed to have noticed the difference , or even realised that there was one .
29 You had heard that there was one , Holloway , and that was for you .
30 He obviously desired an immediate reply but nothing has come to light to suggest that there was one , favourable or otherwise .
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