Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like there were them lads they had fucking four in a glass like and , there was loads of , so many drinks like I served loads . |
| 2 | When they saw how few Dwarfs there were their confidence returned . |
| 3 | There were what Cole calls difficulties , but which might better be identified as disadvantages , for the retail co-operatives in so constituting the production arm as to admit the bonus to labour . |
| 4 | And there were her looks . |
| 5 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
| 6 | All she found there were her hands , big blue veins on the backs of them , not pretty at all . |
| 7 | No I er I said er if I 'd have kept that postcard it there were his address on you see I could have f I could have found him , but no . |
| 8 | And then there were his eyes , burning with a fervour , an intensity , as if he had his prey in his sights . |
| 9 | There were his carpenter 's bench and his tools and his lathe , and in the corner was the dynamo that worked it . |
| 10 | Then there were his butterflies , which I suppose were rather beautiful . |
| 11 | or there were your fingers , if you had enough . |
| 12 | Look what Jesus says here in Luke chapter thirteen , in verse twenty four , just let me pick a few phrases out , verse twenty four it says shall not be able in verse twenty five there was their cry Lord open to us and in verse twenty seven their response depart from me the result in verse twenty eight there was gon na be weeping it was n't gon na be universal , they were not all gon na be saved , they were not all just gon na be swept in in the last day and did n't really matter , you 're all buddies together now in heaven , not at all , this surely what Jesus says here makes it very clear that all will not be saved if at first we 've already mentioned in John er no sorry verse further on in John three this done verse thirty six he who believes in the son has eternal life , but he who does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides upon him , there 's no suggestion there of being ultimately brought in to God 's heaven and ultimately being saved , no it is the wrath of God abideth upon that person . |
| 13 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 14 | When the hue and cry died down , there was nothing Charlton could do to prevent Lawrence taking on a new challenge . |
| 15 | There was nothing Karen had liked better than being taken on a guided tour of three or four climaxes . |
| 16 | There was nothing west of Adam 's Creek , nothing for miles . |
| 17 | There was nothing General Francis could do , and because of his arthritis he could only sit with any comfort on a hard chair . |
| 18 | There was nothing Belinda could do about the way she felt . |
| 19 | And there was nothing Paul Kee could do to stop the kick . |
| 20 | There was nothing Philip could say . |
| 21 | But there was nothing Britain could do . |
| 22 | Just as there was nothing Lowell wanted to devote himself to — other than music . |
| 23 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 24 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 25 | There was nothing Charles Wheeler liked better than issuing orders . |
| 26 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 27 | There was nothing Oz liked better than finding out how to do some new thing . |
| 28 | Forced by her boyfriend , it is alleged , the girl sold sex for up to £90 a session and there was nothing staff at the Suffolk County Council home could do about it , Ipswich Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 30 | At first the Jones said that there was nothing Olwyn liked enough to change her behaviour for and that punishment meant absolutely nothing to her . |