Example sentences of "when there [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had scarcely closed the door of his room when there was a tap on it . |
| 2 | Her mouth was opening , the reply ready , when there was a tap on the door . |
| 3 | Also , when there was a price rise , the Committees would produce leaflets in protest , demanding subsidies for basic goods . |
| 4 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 5 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 6 | The buildings belong to Teesside Development Corporation , whose spokeswoman Fiona Blackwell said they were bought when there was a possibility of a massive motorsports development adjoining the site . |
| 7 | Later , when there was a resurgence of Italian nationalism , La Scala became an even more potent symbol to the Milanese . |
| 8 | Annie Garnett and her workers were part of an important movement in Britain and Europe when there was a resurgence of pride in the natural characteristics of arts and crafts after the Industrial Revolution . |
| 9 | Colleague solidarity counted for little when there was a chance for one of the few organizational carrots — that of promotion . |
| 10 | And when there was a chance to rest , one did not waste it . |
| 11 | Of parish-pump politics in his old suburban nesting place , Sevenoaks : ‘ While everyone would pretend that a solution was what was wanted when there was a problem , in fact what most people wanted was trouble … |
| 12 | He was always like that when there was a row — he cried , he did n't want to hear , yet somehow he had to listen . |
| 13 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 14 | Perhaps some of the voice teaching was repetitive in the second term , but when there was a change in voice tutor who developed pieces of your own choice rather than just vocal exercises the whole thing came alive and interesting . |
| 15 | The main purchaser of the stockings was the Army and when there was a change from breeches to trousers , the long stockings were no longer required , and there was a great slump in the trade and gradually the industry waned in the country areas . |
| 16 | The agency was enjoying considerable success on a worldwide basis at the time and , when there was a change in ownership , he considered starting his own business in marketing consulting . |
| 17 | When there was a change of leadership in the Conservative party , many European leaders — and , indeed , hon. Members — felt that that would lead to a dramatic change of attitude on Britain 's position within the EEC . |
| 18 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |
| 19 | One of the locals volunteered to stand on the end of the little harbour arm to con on out when there was a lull in the surf . |
| 20 | In many districts cattle were thought essential for rice cultivation , and when there was a shortage fields lay fallow . |
| 21 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 22 | ‘ I find Halifax a curiously intriguing figure , ’ he said when there was a pause . |
| 23 | The Tuileries gardens were not infrequently decorated by electric lights and the palace itself , when there was a state ball , added electric lamps to the exterior illuminations . |
| 24 | The brief fame of Soulages 's easy black stroke formula when there was a School of Paris ( of sorts ) was , I thought , long and rightly forgotten , but it must live still in the memories of political dotards whose prime coincided with the Sixties . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Next morning Alice was alone in the house , when there was a tumult of thudding knocks on the door , and a voice screamed , " Come out , you come out of there , come out ! " |
| 27 | However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict . |
| 28 | Mungo was about to say ‘ yes ’ , when there was a bellow from the direction of the pub . |
| 29 | Firearms , unknown to the Indians at the time of the conquest , seemed a frightening manifestation of the supernatural , for they ‘ fled out of fear when there was a blare of trumpets , the roar of arquebuses and artillery ’ . |
| 30 | The sergeant looked even more put out when there was a knock on the outer door and the voice continued . |