Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 2 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 3 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 4 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 5 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 6 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 7 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 8 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 9 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 10 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 11 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 12 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 13 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 14 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 15 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 16 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 17 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 18 | yeah , I would n't call that cheap oh there was summat on t' other day , Sunday , and I told him and he forgot about it did n't he ? , |
| 19 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 20 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 21 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 22 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 23 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |
| 24 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 25 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 26 | ‘ There was nothing outside the building — just a bit of rustling in the trees . |
| 27 | There was nothing except a handful of dried leaves and mildewed wood . |
| 28 | Ranulf came up and expertly went through their wallets and pockets but there was nothing except a few coins . |
| 29 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 30 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |