Example sentences of "there was a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a poisons unit at Charing Cross Hospital , was n't there ? |
| 2 | It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences . |
| 3 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 4 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 5 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 6 | Er sometimes the police , if , if there was a police station near , they would phone a message through but er quite of quite often and then you 'd , you 'd get there and often you 'd hear the baby was born by the time you got there . |
| 7 | There was a police car slewed into the kerb , lights still flashing , doors open , empty . |
| 8 | ‘ A bloke told us to watch it because there was a police car around the corner taking names and addresses . |
| 9 | At one time there was a police inspector and a police constable at the police station . |
| 10 | ‘ Next thing I knew there was a police van outside . ’ |
| 11 | Then there was a police report . |
| 12 | There was a saloon going to Chicago but there was a sports car to Los Angeles . |
| 13 | On Wednesday evening there was a sports programme on the BBC World Service , and Saturday was the day of the football results . |
| 14 | At the west end of the building there was an infants school ‘ under the superintendence of an intelligent looking person of about 19 years . |
| 15 | There was an ironmongers shop by the station , in the |
| 16 | Anyway , she wanted to , me to go and see her , she said there we there was a scanner appeal , and she was also trying to talk about all sorts of other things that were possible and because there was an arts appeal and for arts facilities at the hospital , and all sorts of things . |
| 17 | but in the plans for the reorganisation of community affairs there was an exhibitions officer was n't there ? there 's still a need for that is n't there ? |
| 18 | The idea hit her like a thunderbolt and she spun round , heading back towards the main entrance , remembering that there was an enquiries desk there . |