Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 2 | Well er there were two they was a slicer and a scrapper . |
| 3 | There was , the there were two they had that I had got . |
| 4 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 5 | Now when we were privatized , there were those I 'm sure who thought , It 's a licence to print money . |
| 6 | But there was various I think about sa sa sa sa sa , eight or nineteen upwards to about thirty odd . |
| 7 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 8 | But in a lot of people 's minds , no I do n't think there was that you know that threat . |
| 9 | The closeness had somehow died , but apart from this she 'd been so sure there was much he could tell her . |
| 10 | But there was much he did not own . |
| 11 | There was much he did not know . |
| 12 | There was much he was not aware of in security operations , but the general had placed him in charge of the inquiry . |
| 13 | And er there was four I think , there was a a Mr from Holyhead , and there was a Mr he he lived in Bangor but he was running the ironmongers that was by the station in the old days . |
| 14 | ‘ They said there was little they could do about it , although they have been excellent and have stepped up their patrols . |
| 15 | Consequently there was little they could do early that night when a mammoth sea caught them dangerously broached-to , but the buoyancy of Mae West life jackets wedged in the bow and stern kept the waterlogged canoe afloat till the storm eased around midnight — some 24 hours after it blew up . |
| 16 | The guerrilla role changed once again , for there was little they could do against well defended airstrips when the natives gave away patrols before they were within striking distance of Japanese posts . |
| 17 | Without substantially re-thinking their politics , there was little they could do to resist these forces . |
| 18 | But there was little they could do about it except wring their hands at each fresh horror in its columns , analyse its transparently partisan coverage , and point out how its competitors were dragging their standards downmarket to try to keep up with its soaraway sales . |
| 19 | Although many Carlists and Falangists naturally disliked the Unification , with their fighting men busy at the front there was little they could do to resist it , especially since they shared the general Nationalist respect for ‘ authority ’ . |
| 20 | Critics might complain of what one of them called " the mysterious and irresponsible manner in which foreign politics are arranged " ; but there was little they could do to change the situation . |
| 21 | The district council had offered to go to Boston to discuss the situation with Digital executives but they had been told there was little they could do . |
| 22 | Until now , there was little we could do about this , but complaints have been taken seriously and discussions are now under way between OFTEL , the Office of Telecommunications , and the British Direct Marketing Association ( BDMA , representing companies who use telesales ) . |
| 23 | But there was little he or Mrs Thatcher in earlier exchanges , could do to mitigate what Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrats ' leader , called ‘ a shameful example ’ of human rights policy and what the shadow Foreign Secretary , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said was ‘ a policy of the three o'clock knock by police ’ . |
| 24 | Charles and Dimity 's bleak surroundings worried Harold continuously but there was little he could do . |
| 25 | She heard Rab , ‘ Get up ya lazy swine , ’ but Phillis did not stir ; there was little he could do . |
| 26 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 27 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 28 | There was little he could do about the image . |
| 29 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 30 | But while Draper might protest against the idea — while he might fulminate against his partner risking the hard-earned profits of the record company , the fruits of years of work and tears on a hare-brained scheme to run an airline — he also knew that there was little he could actually do to stop it . |