Example sentences of "and there [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 2 | There were a good number of these , the men and women solemn in their Sunday best , although the young people , and there were plenty of those , too , were surprisingly casual , wearing jeans and bright sweaters under their black leather jackets ; casual and cheerful , too , in their attitude as they entered the church , calling greetings , and making good-natured jokes , much to Omi 's disapproval . |
| 3 | During that time dividends were cut or passed and there were plenty of closures and redundancies , but spending on R&D and on capital investment was maintained . |
| 4 | It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election . |
| 5 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 6 | Almost every seat was taken , and there were plenty of standees . |
| 7 | Thus it was that the dinosaurs were astonishingly successful for 140 million years — a period of dominance in which the mammals of the day ( and there were plenty of mammals about ) were pushed into the background , or at least into holes in the ground and in trees . |
| 8 | There appeared to be no survivors and there were plenty of witnesses to swear both Greg Martin and Paula Varna were on board when the yacht sailed — Martin was well known at the marina where he kept her and Paula was a highly visible character . ’ |
| 9 | Of course there were still enemies to fight : marauding Goblins continued to cross over the Worlds Edge Mountains , and there were plenty of savage human tribes in the northern forests beyond the Middle Mountains . |
| 10 | And there were plenty of people who would be pleased to tell Councillor Evans that his sister had been seen in the Dog and Duck with an American soldier . |
| 11 | But the fourth stomach was contracting well and there were plenty of rumenal sounds . |
| 12 | But it was a first run , and there were plenty of other inspirations . |
| 13 | Not just bars and restaurants — and there were plenty of those — but most of the shops were still open : you could still buy a winter outfit birthday card book or a pressure cooker and lots of people were doing so . |
| 14 | They still had The Highway Code from the Truck , and there were plenty of signs in there . |
| 15 | Mahmoud 's barbs , and there were plenty of them now , for Mahmoud was getting irritated , bounced off his massive self-assurance like wooden arrows off a rock of granite . |
| 16 | What you would see , of course , were tourists and there were plenty of these . |
| 17 | Buses will operate from the city centre and there were plenty of parking places . |
| 18 | However what happened instead was the cat-calls and the boos and the jeers started almost as soon as this procession came came into Red Square , and there were plenty of banners calling for freedom for Lithuania , there were cries of ‘ shame , shame ’ . |
| 19 | When I awoke , I was without pants and there were lots of tubes and bottles and I had pain ’ , he said , giving evidence through an interpreter . |
| 20 | When I awoke , I was without pants and there were lots of tubes and bottles and I had pain ’ , he said , giving evidence through an interpreter . |
| 21 | He had no money and he was working very hard every day and there were lots of problems and nobody there to take care of them . |
| 22 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 23 | We used to send floppy disks to 1,000 sites and there were lots of problems — people lost disks or could n't find the work book . |
| 24 | For a song with a hook that goes : ‘ And there were lots of little Osmonds everywhere , ’ it 's hugely melancholic . |
| 25 | And there were lots of pretty colours , but — ’ She now looked down towards her hands , her fingers flicking against each other , and after a moment she said , ‘ I fidgeted . |
| 26 | Beer , brandy , Scotch and Malibu were being drunk out of plastic cups , everybody was in uniform and there were lots of medals and badges in evidence . |
| 27 | He liked private places behind high walls , and there were lots of houses like that , with gardens , where M. Chaillot lived . |
| 28 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 29 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 30 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |