Example sentences of "there [was/were] even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 2 | So mighty was God , there was even a promise of help from the Greeks . |
| 3 | In Kepler 's interpretation there was even a sense in which the earth remained central : Just as the sun had occupied the central orbit in the sequence radiating out from earth , so now the earth enjoyed that same centrality with respect to orbits around the sun . |
| 4 | There was even a church for the victims , dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo who had an earlier one replaced . |
| 5 | There was even a mist over the sands . |
| 6 | The fact was , there was such a person , and there was even a daughter , now at Oxford . |
| 7 | There was even a bond of understanding between them . |
| 8 | There was even a sketch in the papers about |
| 9 | RJR-Nabisco was consumed by Kohlberg Kravis and there was even a scheme , at one stage , to mount a $40billion plus takeover for General Motors . |
| 10 | There was even a burn mark on his chin but apart from that his expression was positively cherubic . |
| 11 | The company of the saints in heaven was considered an additional potent source of assistance ; individual saints were identified as especially efficacious for particular problems — there was even a saint of hopeless causes ( St Jude ) — and large numbers of men and women undertook long and sometimes hazardous pilgrimages to sites associated with them . |
| 12 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 13 | There was also no lack of opportunity to meet up with your contemporaries in and around the dale — there was even a dance hall of a kind . |
| 14 | There was even a character in Comic Cuts in the 1890s , a youthful prowler named ‘ Area Sneaker , — and what a pseudonym that is to conjure with from this supposedly untroubled late Victorian era — who reflected the fashion . |
| 15 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 16 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |
| 17 | ‘ It was in a dreadful state , there was even a lawnmower standing on it , ’ he said . |
| 18 | There was even a Christmas tree set up by the altar . |
| 19 | The table looked exquisite , and there was even a rose — a yellow one — lying across her plate . |
| 20 | There was even a broom leaning in a corner . |
| 21 | It sailed a sea painted sky-blue and there was even a figure with eyes and a mouth in a crow's-nest smaller than an acorn . |
| 22 | There was even a moment when he looked directly into Julian 's eyes , and she opened them wide to take him in , but there was nothing alive in him to enter . |
| 23 | There was even a stock of down for emergency bedding until recently . |
| 24 | There was even a sum of £pound50 paid to , of all people , sausage skin manufacturers ! |
| 25 | There was even a belief that he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to walk the earth until Christ 's second coming . |
| 26 | There was even a business fantasy , probably injected in the President 's ear by Don Regan after the others had left . |
| 27 | There was even a tow-ball , for which we bought a carrier to take the bike . |
| 28 | There was even a recipe for lemon curd using vegetable marrow but no eggs or lemons . |
| 29 | There was even a muttering that the echo pulses could frighten or harm fish . |
| 30 | There was even a face to go with it . |