Example sentences of "there [was/were] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and his son helped him but I think in later on there were a little bit of disagreement with , with regards to who , how much work there was and , but anyway they 'd finished the bungalow and er it 's grand yes |
| 2 | . I remember one thing , talking about things falling out and one of We had to go and pick up erm er er There was a great business you know about these er what are they called these these games . |
| 3 | Verdun was a watershed in World War I : before it , all were confident that victory was attainable , albeit with great sacrifice ; after it there was a ghastly realization that no one had the solution to the war . |
| 4 | Down the front of it there was a long slash . |
| 5 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 6 | As they came down there was a slight mishap as two bumped into each other . |
| 7 | But as soon as the television come round there was a helluva change in the screws , being falsely nice . |
| 8 | As I loaded them in there was a sharp reminder of the night before . |
| 9 | East Midlands There was a complete cancellation of the match programme in the eastern counties . |
| 10 | An electric fire stood in the fireplace and above it there was a large-scale Ordnance Survey map of the town and district . |
| 11 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 12 | giving the judgment of the court said : ‘ The Court of Appeal … held … they were guilty of theft because when the bottles were taken there was a dishonest appropriation . |
| 13 | A little way along there was a young man standing between two stalls with a tray suspended by a strap around his neck . |
| 14 | For many there was a substantial overlap between religious and national identity . |
| 15 | We sat down to knit , but before we had settled there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 16 | On the climb-out at 100 ft there was a loud explosion and a lump of metal attached to a control wire whipped round and caught me in the groin . |
| 17 | The ledge , he found , was quite broad , and from it there was a reasonable climb up . |
| 18 | Worcester is convinced there was a late swing to the Tories . |
| 19 | Two large leather-covered armchairs were placed near a cast-iron stove , and between them there was a low table with a chessboard , the pieces set up ready for play . |
| 20 | A couple of weeks back there was a strong buzz that Saffron landed one by dinghy into France . |
| 21 | In Asturias there was a strong tradition of early migration in the poor mountain villages . |
| 22 | From 1876–1885 there was a three-year course . |
| 23 | Oh , to feed from there was a different matter . |
| 24 | When I came down there was a slosh-slosh sound coming from the downstairs cloakroom . |
| 25 | In 1983–4 there was a sudden upsurge in legal calls , mainly centring around ‘ pretty police ’ activity in the London area and a spate of cottaging entrapments . |
| 26 | After a lull around the time of Ter-Petrosyan 's negotiations in Moscow , on Aug. 19-22 there was a sudden escalation of armed clashes along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border , with regular Soviet troops fighting Armenian guerrillas who attacked villages inside Azerbaijan . |
| 27 | ‘ At Risley when they heard about my sentencing , I was told there was a near riot . ’ |
| 28 | Between the two of them there was a fundamental issue at stake . |
| 29 | Customary by the mid-thirteenth century , largely due to Innocent 's introduction of such a scheme , such taxes , however , did not bring money into the papal coffers but were granted to the leaders of the crusades , through there was a widespread belief that money collected for the Crusade by Philip the notary was doing exactly that , and in 1202 Innocent ordered an investigation . |
| 30 | It was quite a responsibility at first , but if I was worried about anything there was a Head Gardener called Arthur Godfrey here at Killerton that I could turn to . |