Example sentences of "[unc] there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 2 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 3 | It so happened that erm Tom tha who I was working with , see he was on Shift er Shift F and er there was always a bit of rivalry between the various shifts as er , as to erm , you know , who did the better job and all this sort of thing |
| 4 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 5 | Section three point five is banking needs that er there was quite a lot of current by arrangements , but opt outs use erm , that 's an unfortunate word in terms of education and will be allowed for those who are wishing to have alternative arrangements . |
| 6 | Then , then of course there were n't no traffic signs in the middle of the road , it was a sort of er certain people from went and started that up and er they were all wor all worked in Caldmore it was almost as though the tailoring Caldmore was full of tailors in a way then there were people starting up on their own making clothes , but er there was quite a lot of tailors around er I know there was he 'd got a shop on Caldmore , he was a tailor and er shall we go through all the shops ? |
| 7 | And er there was only the workhouse at that they could go . |
| 8 | On the second sheet er of D One , the responsibility statement , er there were just a couple of boxes er ticked . |
| 9 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 10 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 11 | I only came into the room and I switched it on and i there were quite a lot of recriminations with people who |