Example sentences of "[pron] there be a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When someone like that from your past looms in front of you there is a kind of shock .
2 ‘ As an astrologer , I must tell you there is a conjunction in Uranus . ’
3 How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ?
4 Who told you there was a prison ? ’
5 " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass .
6 Er and erm I used to put it in this and go to out into the mess room outside where they there was a cook and it was a very grand name for a person you know , a cook .
7 I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target .
8 For most of them there is a cure ; but as yet not for HIV infection .
9 Like Gordon and Henry Lawrence before him , Lugard was revered as a soldier-saint ; like them there was a glory about his head which cast its light on all he did .
10 The words were bathetic but behind them there was a despair frightening in its intensity .
11 A few became aware of specific disadvantages suffered by women in a sex-segregated labour market and within their unions : for them there was a dawning of gender consciousness .
12 Amongst them there was a need to make sense of ones experience through the work , and a desire to communicate this to others .
13 Without them there was a gulf between her and every other thing .
14 For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified .
15 Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several .
16 In it there are a pair of perfectly revolting parents and a foul tyrant of a teacher .
17 The entrance to it is now covered over , and beside it there is a memorial inscription to Loubens and to another speleologist who has been killed there since .
18 Outside the classrooms there is a sort of portico where you can sit in the open , and at the end of it there is a sort of hamburger and cold drinks stall .
19 To get to it there is a right of way through fields .
20 At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden .
21 ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’
22 On top of it there was a copper funnel , and there were rods coming out of the end of the funnel attached to a wheel .
23 When you opened it there was a pull-out strip with pictures of all the Super Leeds team .
24 We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station .
25 When he reached it there was a sprinkling of cars but no decrepit old van with a CND symbol on its side .
26 And by it there was a switch .
27 Ell talked to her and offered her support , but with it there was a feeling of coldness .
28 There was occasional boredom , people came and went , there might be a technical hitch but more than anything there was a fascination with the moving pictures and that , of course , was the essence of the experience .
29 Comparison of the sediment influx above and below a date of 48060yrBP ( AD 1405–1450 ; ref. 24 ) at 30cm in core 12 ( Fig. 3 ) indicates that if anything there was a decrease in the erosion rate after the Conquest .
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