Example sentences of "there [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What gauges there were stayed in the green , the engine kept going , and I quickly discovered the ‘ Airknocker ’ to be a surprisingly agile machine , capable of very tight turns on a wingtip if required . |
| 2 | Smith could not trace Vial 's tomb ; the chapel was later pulled down , and the bodies buried there were transferred to the Great Northern Cemetery in New Southgate where , on the western side , shaded by yew trees , huge vault slabs cover the remains of the dead removed from the Savoy chapel in the Strand . |
| 3 | Two days later the oil caught fire and the wharf and ships being repaired there were damaged by the fire . |
| 4 | In Essex there were to remain in the Forest only the half hundred of Waltham and parts of the hundreds of Ongar and Becontree , said to have been afforested before 1154 , and the royal demesnes of Havering , Hatfield , Chelmsford and Kingswood near Colchester . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the decade , there were affiliated to the French Confederation of Producer Co-operatives ( SCOP ) some 670 active industrial co-operatives , organised in eleven regions each with a full-time staff of organisers and advisers , and having a combined turnover of £500 million . |
| 6 | Despite having a fair share of the play throughout , Braintree never really made any real impression and what chances there were came for the visitors . |
| 7 | Iran 's oil sales to the US and assets there were frozen by the Carter administration , whose later attempt to mount a Hollywood-style rescue ended in the desert at Tabas in an ignominious collision of aircraft . |
| 8 | Urban land enjoying immunities was confiscated and artisans and traders living there were included in the towns ’ tax-paying rolls . |
| 9 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 10 | As you know , there was meeting of the Consortium last week , which I attended . |
| 11 | ‘ The open air pool there was built into the cliffs , and the trials were hit by an Atlantic gale that washed away most of the seating and did a lot of damage . |
| 12 | The Dutch interest there was inspired by the presence in the East Indies of large numbers of Hadhramis who had emigrated there to make their fortunes . |
| 13 | From the upstairs window of the grey-stone , substantial house at the top of the road there was billowing into the night slow , steady streams of smoke — not thick , or threatening in themselves , but culminating in a heavy , acrid cloud haloing the house , and sending a hideous smell of ruin down the gentle hill to the centre of the town . |
| 14 | where the plaintiff was employed by the Ministry of Supply as an inspector of munitions in the defendants ' munitions factory and , in the course of her employment there was injured by the explosion of a shell that was being manufactured . |
| 15 | Whatever eagle was there was hidden inside the rough concrete shelter that provided the only escape in the Victorian metal cages from prying eyes . |
| 16 | As a result of these worries , there was incorporated into the 1986 Education Act a specific prohibition against promoting ‘ partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the school . ’ |
| 17 | Supposing that the damage to the intestines was further down in , in gut area here okay , and there was bleeding in the gut |
| 18 | Less tangibly , there was noted in the interviews the tendency for the specialist team members to be somewhat more articulate in the responses they made . |
| 19 | In addition , the Non-Oral department at the Royal Residential Schools in Manchester was requisitioned as a military hospital for the duration of the war , and there was overcrowding in the Main School as a result . |
| 20 | Now the tunnelers were right through and ’ there was placed under the Parliament house where the king should sit , some 30 barrels of gunpowder , with great store of wood , faggots and bars of iron . ’ |
| 21 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 22 | And as she stared , there was interposed on the fair skin face of a man , a thin man , and he was leering at her as if in triumph , as he would do if he were to get hold of this unusual-looking child , for he 'd make a pretty penny out of her , no matter what channel he sent her along , his nursery , the street , or the boat . |
| 23 | This event last occurred in 1928 and it is a measure of the immense volume of water released that there was flooding on the Punjabi Plains , more than 800 miles away . |
| 24 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |
| 25 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 26 | There was clapping from the claque of young courtiers around him but the London mob was silent and Athelstan remembered Cranston 's mutterings about how the expensive tastes of the court , coupled with the military defeats against the French , had brought Gaunt and his party into disrepute . |
| 27 | Then some hours later there was falling off the carriage into the cow field . |
| 28 | A team existed before this as in February of the same year there was held at the Institute a cricket concert attended by a large audience . |
| 29 | Yet when his mouth claimed hers once more , there was pleading in the passion that made her head spin , and she responded instinctively . |
| 30 | The brewing plant there was modernized during the early 1970s and subsequent investment has kept it in line with current technology . |