Example sentences of "there was [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 2 | Recently de-classified Home Office papers do , however , show that there was a fluid situation within the agencies of state on this question . |
| 3 | There was a fluid pain at the back of my neck and my own voice was strange to me . |
| 4 | Well when Roger and Mark was there , there was a toilet roll there . |
| 5 | there was a toilet roll in there then . |
| 6 | So she 's here already , thought Penelope , seeing that there was a fur jacket lying on the spare room bed . |
| 7 | There was a fulling mill where the Rothay and Brathay join and the flat lands beside the Rothay were used as tentergrounds . |
| 8 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 9 | Obviously , there was a quantum leap of some sort in the development of Minoan culture at the time when the temples were built , just as there was a quantum leap when the towns were built . |
| 10 | Obviously , there was a quantum leap of some sort in the development of Minoan culture at the time when the temples were built , just as there was a quantum leap when the towns were built . |
| 11 | There was a company rule incorporated into the woman 's terms and conditions that where an employee exceeded 26 weeks ' continuous sick leave , he or she would be dismissed . |
| 12 | There was a case conference on 15 May 1991 . |
| 13 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 14 | The quota system did it ; there was a milk glut . |
| 15 | Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item . |
| 16 | The bystander requirement in section 5 is not simply an objective hypothetical measure of the quality of the defendant 's conduct , as in the first three sections of the Act ; rather , the policeman or other witness who gives evidence of the defendant 's misconduct must satisfy the magistrates that there was a person present who was likely to be harassed , alarmed or distressed . |
| 17 | At most , the prosecution witness is obliged to testify that there was a person present or in the vicinity who was likely to have been subjected to the sensations described . |
| 18 | In Elizabeth 's reign there was a Government campaign to glorify his memory , and Foxe devoted 100 pages to him in his Book of Martyrs . |
| 19 | But there was a question mark last night over the continued Cabinet careers of several ministers , including Mr Baker , Home Secretary , Mr King , Defence Secretary , and Mr Lilley , Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | And it showed er some doubt about the er actually levels of comparison , but there was a question mark they raised , specifically about North Yorkshire . |
| 21 | She should have rung immediately and said there was a question mark . |
| 22 | There was a newspaper reporter who made a meal out of it . |
| 23 | Much more recently , in 1981 , there was a newspaper report of a Chinese she-mule who gave birth to a foal in Honan Province ; the sire was a donkey and the offspring a mule like its mother . |
| 24 | In addition , the government insisted that until there was a ceasefire agreement , the current counterinsurgency operations would continue in every region where the guerrillas were active . |
| 25 | There was communists , there was I M Ps , there were Labour Party men , and at that time there was a unity campaign . |
| 26 | The surroundings , however , are bleak , and interest is confined to the wide expanse of Loch Ewe , an inlet of the sea of considerable extent , commissioned into service during the war as a base to assist in the passage of convoys , when there was a submarine boom across the entrance . |
| 27 | There was a chill wind on the Hill of the Dead , but Biff took off his top-hat and mopped his forehead with a red spotted handkerchief . |
| 28 | Rostov thought about adjusting the controls , but he hesitated to disturb the state of kerei — contemplation — in case the period was one of the five which were the daily requirement of the Manchu code of belief There was a foot clamp beside the door panel , and he engaged it . |
| 29 | Er to force the employer into a frame of mind that er well there was a bargaining unit there . |
| 30 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |