Example sentences of "here [was/were] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to this time all the Science teaching had taken place in the top corridor overlooking the tennis courts ; here were the Sykes Lecture Room , a small Chemistry preparation room , a large Chemistry laboratory , a small Physics laboratory ( which had been the Art Room prior to the 1937 expansion ) , and a small room in the tower . |
| 2 | Here were the Hepplewhite chairs and the Pembroke table , coveted by Mervyn Cantrell , portraits of her grandparents and of her father in cope and biretta , the comer cupboard with the lustre jugs collected by her mother , the old silky Bokhara rugs on the polished parquet floor of the sitting room , the familiar books in the white-painted bookshelves , and the china ornaments she remembered from childhood . |
| 3 | Here was the BBC 's copy of her exceedingly rare volume of poems published in 1945 . |
| 4 | Though Berton rose through the administrative ranks , he continued to direct : here was the Berton remembered by Meude-Monpas : |
| 5 | The last member of the Obins family to hold land here was the Reverend Michael Eyre Obins , born about 1779 , who in 1820 sold the property to Robert Sparrow of Tandragee , whose grand-daughter , Millicent , married a member of the Montagu family ( Lord Mandeville ) in 1822 . |
| 6 | Here was the Old Kent Road . |
| 7 | Yet now here was the CEGB disregarding the logic of its own research plan . |