Example sentences of "[verb] there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 2 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 3 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
| 4 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 5 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 6 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
| 7 | I mean there were obviously a lot of things I could criticize . |
| 8 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 9 | N do n't know that I know just the whisky barrels they were , a little I believe there was maybe a name for them . |
| 10 | I I guess there was probably a lean to or something like that . |
| 11 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 12 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 13 | He felt there was virtually no difference in either of them , ’ says Dave Campion , a member of the Prodrive management team . |
| 14 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 15 | ‘ She thought there was probably a friendship . ’ |
| 16 | Clearly , serious efforts were being made to bring the new Court up to standard , though Malmesbury thought there was still a way to go before all would be consolidated : |
| 17 | Aside from the usual collection of press releases there was also a letter from an A.N . |
| 18 | She said there was already an element of compulsion in the benefit system . |
| 19 | He said there was clearly a case for considering a new body whose sole responsibility would be banking supervision . |
| 20 | Skiers there said there was always a chance something would go wrong . |
| 21 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 22 | We discussed the whole thing and i said there was absolutely no point at all . |
| 23 | THE conservative arch-rival of Russia 's leader , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday backtracked on demands for the president 's impeachment and said there was still a chance they could reach agreement to end the power struggle that is paralysing the country . |
| 24 | The Premier also said there was still the option of an American peace envoy being appointed to oversee developments in Ulster — if the talks failed to get under way again . |
| 25 | Arguing that government policy was clearly in favour of further nuclear development , especially under the proposals for privatizing the industry , it said there was now an obligation to build Hinkley C , whatever the cost . |
| 26 | However , he suggested there was perhaps a need to look into the system more closely . |