Example sentences of "[coord] there [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know er , down at Corfe Junction or a one road across or one another across or there was one road going to Wimborne , one going to Broadstone , up road and down road . |
| 2 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 3 | The oven door was open , and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf . |
| 4 | Er and there were four crown post trusses or well no five crown port trusses , you see half of on there , half of one there and a whole one there . |
| 5 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 6 | She fetched the drinks and there were two tea bags in there , were n't there , instead of sugar . |
| 7 | Andy has also been successful with other players : he was with the American Tom Purtzer when he won the 1984 Phoenix Open , with Craig Stadler from the US when the ‘ Walrus ’ won the 1985 Swiss Open , and there were two World Cup triumphs for Andy and his man — an individual title with Englishman Howard Clark in the 1985 Cup , and a team title with David Llewellyn of Wales in 1987 . |
| 8 | it was amazing really there were one young man there from er , er London polytechnic and he was a very arrogant young man , er and there were all kind of things came out |
| 9 | If all jobs and workers were homogeneous and there were perfect information and perfect mobility of labour , then it is reasonable to suppose that all wages would be equal . |
| 10 | And there were other joiner over and Do you know what is ? |
| 11 | One entered the building — and there were other Corner Houses at Marble Arch and the Strand — via a large marble hall where the overpowering , but pleasant , smell of the delicatessen on sale there mingled with the warmth of Lyons tea being brewed all around . |
| 12 | Timber had been removed without nutrient replacement and there were major weed problems in the rice . |
| 13 | The snow showed no signs of melting ; it was piled at least four inches deep on her window ledge and against her windows , and there were deep bird tracks patterned across it . |
| 14 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 15 | The medical services , not expecting such large losses , were incapable of caring for all the wounded and there were insufficient ambulance trains to take the thousands of serious cases to base hospitals . |
| 16 | Instead , local legislation in various local authority areas imposed such obligations , and there were varying time limits as to flow soon before the date of the proposed procession notice was required . |
| 17 | There were similar demands for reform from the people - , and there were corresponding conservatism . |
| 18 | The bodies of these cars were carried on channel steel underframes and there were steel platform bearers . |
| 19 | As the Lollipops were finishing and preparing to go on tour , twenty-four Tiller Girls were in the Ziegfeld Follies and there were sixteen Sunshine Girls at the Globe Theatre . |
| 20 | There were no looped grabrail on the corner of the dash and there were typical Brush corner brackets supporting the landing half way up the stairs . |
| 21 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 22 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 23 | ‘ It was getting worse and there were dangerous cross winds on the Mull airstrip . ’ |
| 24 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |
| 25 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 26 | This group — and there were some sterling institutions reportedly among the participants — would have trimmed USL down to its core operating system , dumped the loss-making language sector , sold off the $5m-a-year Tuxedo line that some insiders consider a crown jewel and cut back on ES/MP which everybody wanted and no one is buying . |
| 27 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 28 | Lifted cover and there were this fella underneath . |
| 29 | I saw her from the window , walking upright on two canes without a pause and there were twenty cliffside steps from the gate to my borrowed front door . |
| 30 | The provision of home recordings has provided important benefits : the validity of parental observations was objectively determined ; a log of compliance with home recording was obtained ; and there were fewer time constraints on its use . |