Example sentences of "[verb] there was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms . |
| 2 | ‘ At Risley when they heard about my sentencing , I was told there was a near riot . ’ |
| 3 | We sat down to knit , but before we had settled there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 4 | It was growing uncomfortably warm inside the pod , but with the third skin gone there was a transparent patch in the casing shell level with his face . |
| 5 | Always when the snow had recently fallen there was a damp fog over the camp , a link between the low grey cloud and the whitened ground . |
| 6 | giving the judgment of the court said : ‘ The Court of Appeal … held … they were guilty of theft because when the bottles were taken there was a dishonest appropriation . |