Example sentences of "there [was/were] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were something like 41 officials but only 21 players from the home unions at Parc des Princes . |
| 2 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 3 | ‘ I should know if there were something wrong . |
| 4 | If only there were something substantial to hide behind ! |
| 5 | She went through phases when she felt intensely guilty , as if there were something that she could n't quite locate that she had done to provoke her mother 's wrath . |
| 6 | A silence developed , as if there were something left to say . |
| 7 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Gerald , ’ he began slowly , ‘ if there were something fishy , and I were to tell you , could I trust your discretion ? ’ |
| 9 | as if there were something more to say . |
| 10 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 11 | We 're sort of outside of that area so I do n't know what we do about our video equipment , but I think it would be beneficial if there were somebody we could call on to sort out problems for us , who actually understood all the stuff . |
| 12 | But if there were somebody posh here I might say , What are we having for our tea ? |
| 13 | Indeed it could be argued that if there were nothing to count against it then it would no longer be faith ! |
| 14 | ‘ Of myself ? ’ she asked , as if there were nothing to say . |
| 15 | There were nothing but shreds of leaves , gnawed stems , and barren shoots . |
| 16 | In Colette 's description we have the sentence : ‘ There were nothing but shreds of leaves , gnawed stems and barren shoots . ’ |
| 17 | Without thinking , as though there were nothing else she could do , she slipped her hand in under her thick shirt . |
| 18 | there were nothing wrong with it . |
| 19 | With the publication of this book , British geographers can no longer be content to quote the aphorism about geography being what geographers do , and then gracefully retire from the discussion as though there were nothing to add . |
| 20 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 21 | Blind Io had got his name because , where his eye sockets should have been , there were nothing but two areas of blank skin . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 23 | There were some complete manuscripts but there were nothing more than a collection of royal warrants written personally by King James and sealed under his signet ring , granting tasks or favours to his ‘ beloved physician , Andrew Selkirk ’ . |
| 24 | Well er the money was not you had to buy the and the there were nothing in it unless you went into choosing a a big system like the battery system . |
| 25 | And then , put it the other way i if there were nothing that side you 'd have to put it on B because that 's ready to run . |
| 26 | He went I knew there were summat |
| 27 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 28 | Although 60 per cent of the 363 samples taken were below the MEL , there were plenty of examples of poor control , with nearly two-thirds of all planers producing dust levels above the MEL . |
| 29 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 30 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |