Example sentences of "[adv] there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently there was always a flood of people flowing through the farmhouse : friends , friends of friends , friends of friends of friends . |
| 2 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 3 | Furthermore there was still the problem " What exactly is |
| 4 | Mm , we did have to , oddly enough there was always a tradition when I started er of working on Tuesdays erm an extra quarter of an hour because that was Committee Day |
| 5 | By eight o'clock there was still no sign of Silvia . |
| 6 | Travis had the same idea , for he moved away from her to remove the last of his clothes before turning to her again , his body moving over her , his legs gliding between hers so there was scarcely an inch of their two bodies that was not touching , and she was made vitally aware of his arousal . |
| 7 | What I was going to suggest then , Chairman , in the light of , in a sense a change of , a change of thought by me over the Christmas period , in a way it 's probably best it happened , is to ask if we could , because I 'm , I 'm keen that , this kind of different kind of strategy , there is a , there is a member ownership of the strategy , rather than just put something to you , that you would then have to , you know you , you have the paper in front of you , it 's a thirty page document , and you decided is actually to suggest that you have actually a , a , a member group of , of , of a few members , perhaps three or four members , erm , to actually work with me on this , in the development of that strategy , so there was actually a member involvement , because it 's straying more into the political field . |
| 8 | So there was obviously a lot of debate around , you know , Is it going to happen ? and if it does happen , well it 'll clearly happen in . |
| 9 | The Sunday Independent , however , does not circulate on the British mainland and so there was still no head of steam generated for an inquiry . |
| 10 | I still had to do homework when I got back home because nobody knew how quickly the floods would disappear so there was still the possibility of school tomorrow . |
| 11 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 12 | So there was quite a bit of business in Newmarket for anyone who |
| 13 | So there was often an element of delusion about zoological illustration . |
| 14 | When stroke was considered alone there was merely a trend favouring the surgical group ; this trend disappeared when perioperative deaths and three strokes associated with arteriography were included in the analysis . |
| 15 | Finally there was just the fitting of the cowlings for the last time . |
| 16 | But as they attended a private cremation tonight there was still no word from the local criminal informants . |
| 17 | Anyway there was soon the train to look at . |
| 18 | Not very far away there was also a policeman . |
| 19 | Maybe they did overdrink and so on and so forth , but nevertheless there was always a shelter . |
| 20 | To the relief of leader Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP , David Alton , said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next General Election . |
| 21 | To the relief of Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next general election . |
| 22 | You know like there was always a boy that er went round the village |
| 23 | Of the thousands of chair makers living in the scattered villages of the Chilterns in 1880 , 30 years later there were only a handful , working in factories concentrated in High Wycombe ( Saville 1957 ) . |
| 24 | Hence there was only a requirement for access from the south and this has been provided by utilising the existing slip road from Clovenstone Roundabout on Westerhailes Road for traffic joining the bypass and travelling south and by forming a new connection into Baberton Mains View for northbound traffic leaving the bypass . |
| 25 | He beat them so badly there was hardly a bone left unbroken in either of their bodies . |
| 26 | From the fourteenth century onward there was undoubtedly a tradition in which Aristotle was continually being challenged . |
| 27 | And besides there was also an element of perversion , the persistence of infantile formations : God knows how [ blacks ] make love ! |
| 28 | He woke at three with a recurrence of the old nightmare-drowning and helpless in a deluge of glutinous liquid in which paradoxically there was also a ball of fire . |
| 29 | In early May at 6 a.m. there was hardly a sound , but the sun was already up and giving the hint of a beautiful day to come . |
| 30 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |