Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were somehow you want t to get across the point in the . |
| 2 | It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall . |
| 3 | ( This does not mean that there were not plenty of Irishmen who paid some ‘ friend ’ from the old country unnecessarily for the privilege of finding a job in the New World . ) |
| 4 | Yeah they were building them when we got there were n't they ? |
| 5 | And left abandoned there were n't they ? |
| 6 | I suppose they were both there were n't they Lily and Iris ? |
| 7 | Very much so Peter I felt as well , and erm really the chances were there were n't they ? |
| 8 | there were n't something |
| 9 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 10 | Oh Paddy was there were n't he . |
| 11 | Well was there were n't he ? |
| 12 | You were there were n't you ? |
| 13 | Oh catch them on their way you were a bit slow there were n't you , ah ? |
| 14 | Well you were there were n't you too ? |
| 15 | It 's a bit too noisy there were n't it ? |
| 16 | It was only us two there were n't it ? |
| 17 | A gate thing there were n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , well , there were probably lots of things we do n't know about . |
| 19 | There were nevertheless plenty of suggestions for targets : St Nazaire was considered but dismissed because shoal waters were thought to make a sea approach impractical ; Dieppe appeared too heavily defended ; and many suggested moves to occupy distant islands were ruled out by the impossibility of maintaining garrisons . |
| 20 | This curious mingling of piety , enthusiasm and sadistic cruelty is recorded time and again in the vernacular literature of the age — sometimes naively , sometimes satirically , for there were evidently plenty of reflective men who saw the paradox , and pondered on it . |
| 21 | The introduction by TNCs of industries where there were previously none at all . |
| 22 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 23 | What few cars there were when she arrived had disappeared . |
| 24 | ‘ I am still very sad that to the best of my knowledge there are no more nurses on those wards than there were when I was dismissed . |
| 25 | Grand Central was in effect two stations , as the contemporary cutaway illustrations were concerned to show , stations with more complex multiple levels below ground than there were above it . |
| 26 | There were also her public relations men . |
| 27 | There were just lots of things wrong . |
| 28 | And er there were well they had to get water up from the from the bottom t ladder in pails and three men er with pails trying to and of course they could n't fight it . |
| 29 | There were admittedly plenty of countries even in Europe — and practically all outside that continent — where the left , revolutionary or otherwise , as yet failed to make any impact on the peasantry ; as the Russian populists ( see chapter 9 above ) discovered when they decided to ‘ go to the people ’ in the 1870s . |
| 30 | There were indeed lots of MacLeans — nearly the whole Clan MacLean , as far as she could judge . |