Example sentences of "and there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the part-time tutors , about a quarter were local schoolmasters , and there were also a number of parish clergy , local government officers and retired professional people ; only two of those so far booked for courses were women , although when the programme was finalised there were three . |
| 2 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |
| 3 | She was quite near the plane now and there were quite a lot of newspaper photographers around her , but she did not stop walking . |
| 4 | It was ‘ good television ’ and there were virtually no production costs in a sports broadcast in comparison with making a play or a documentary feature . |
| 5 | For once she was early and there were only a handful of girls in the yard , all stamping their feet and huddling in their cloaks to keep out the bitter cold . |
| 6 | Usually they were very ancient foundations and there were only a handful of such in England . |
| 7 | This had went on and on and there was practically every blacksmith 's shop in Scotland would have one of these machines made by us . |
| 8 | The only people left in London who put their name on their doorbells these days were called Monica or Helga , and there was rarely a surname . |
| 9 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |
| 10 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 11 | Theatre remained his great love , and there was scarcely a production of any significance he failed to see . |
| 12 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 13 | RJR-Nabisco was consumed by Kohlberg Kravis and there was even a scheme , at one stage , to mount a $40billion plus takeover for General Motors . |
| 14 | The fact was , there was such a person , and there was even a daughter , now at Oxford . |
| 15 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 16 | It sailed a sea painted sky-blue and there was even a figure with eyes and a mouth in a crow's-nest smaller than an acorn . |
| 17 | The table looked exquisite , and there was even a rose — a yellow one — lying across her plate . |
| 18 | But meanwhile democracy would have been taken much further than the Mensheviks envisaged — and there was even the possibility that , if revolution broke out in the West , the ‘ dictatorship ’ might be sustained by aid from socialist regimes abroad . |
| 19 | and there was even the worm holes in some of the wood |
| 20 | There was a Doctor Kayewe and a Doctor Natani and there was also a lady doctor called Miriam . |
| 21 | , Sir Thomas , first baronet ( 1637–1688 ) , master carpenter , bricklayer , and building contractor , was born in Barkway , Hertfordshire , the second son ( the first died in infancy and there was also a daughter ) of William Fitch and his wife Alice , and baptized 17 December 1637 . |
| 22 | Enclosure of common land , invasion of common rights and engrossing of farms were among the complaints put forward in the Norfolk rising , and there was also a demand for the ending of serfdom , although there is little evidence that there were still many men of villein status . |
| 23 | In each of these periods there was poverty and unemployment associated with the break-up of old industries and patterns and there was also the development of new industries , methods of production and new sources of profitable business . |
| 24 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 25 | You see the idea , was if you had lights in your house and there was just a kink , or chink , they used to call them in those days , they could be spotted from the air , so th You either had wooden shutters at your window , or blackout curtaining . |
| 26 | But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them . |
| 27 | Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick . |
| 28 | He arrived at the bridge , walked over it then back again , he looked over the parapet at the shining metals , the line curved away round a curve ; he looked around , everything was quiet , the moon had come out and there was just a touch of frost in the air . |
| 29 | ‘ Franzia , ’ he said , and there was just a hint of Scottish burr . |
| 30 | And I said we just come out of the drive went across the road and there was just a bus behind us and erm I said the car almost came to a halt . |