Example sentences of "there were on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 2 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 3 | There were on the one side the Roman citizens who ( leaving out for our purpose the distinction between cives cum suffragio and cives sine suffragio ) filled the legions . |
| 4 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 5 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I looked round to see how many bodies there were on the floor . |