Example sentences of "there [was/were] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was that was there at Howar there were a man . |
| 2 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 3 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 4 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 5 | And there was a man handcuffed to his chair . |
| 6 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 7 | There was a man on the other side of the river . |
| 8 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 9 | There was a man sitting in it looking down . |
| 10 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 11 | There was a man who did not insist on managing things for himself . |
| 12 | When I came out , there was a man with his car door open trying to get her to jump in . |
| 13 | There was a man on the top loft , |
| 14 | There was a man called Jarov who fascinated me . |
| 15 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 16 | There was a man behind the orchestra in the Philharmonie who all but ruined what was a fascinating performance of the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven . |
| 17 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 18 | There was a man at the bottom of Sauchiehall Street . |
| 19 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 20 | But there was a man captured , and Lachlan got it out of him who was behind it all . ’ |
| 21 | I leant out of the bedroom window and there was a man waiting there who said there had been a car crash and could he telephone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ At one of the Dutch gigs there was a man dressed completely in green , wearing a Robin Hood suit and leaping around . |
| 23 | There was a man walking up and down the corridor outside . |
| 24 | When I was a child , there was a man who came to our chapel in an invalid chair . |
| 25 | I was called to a house and there was a man in agony . |
| 26 | Yet there is no trace of arrogance in his writings or pronouncements , and for those who could track him down , there was a man who was more than ready to mull over the ideas of lesser mortals . |
| 27 | There was a man holding a horse , and another beside him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There was a man by the roadside with an arrow in his thigh . |
| 29 | There was a man sent from God , whose name was John . |
| 30 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |