Example sentences of "and there [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 2 | And there were her looks . |
| 3 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
| 4 | There were a good number of these , the men and women solemn in their Sunday best , although the young people , and there were plenty of those , too , were surprisingly casual , wearing jeans and bright sweaters under their black leather jackets ; casual and cheerful , too , in their attitude as they entered the church , calling greetings , and making good-natured jokes , much to Omi 's disapproval . |
| 5 | During that time dividends were cut or passed and there were plenty of closures and redundancies , but spending on R&D and on capital investment was maintained . |
| 6 | It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election . |
| 7 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 8 | Almost every seat was taken , and there were plenty of standees . |
| 9 | Thus it was that the dinosaurs were astonishingly successful for 140 million years — a period of dominance in which the mammals of the day ( and there were plenty of mammals about ) were pushed into the background , or at least into holes in the ground and in trees . |
| 10 | There appeared to be no survivors and there were plenty of witnesses to swear both Greg Martin and Paula Varna were on board when the yacht sailed — Martin was well known at the marina where he kept her and Paula was a highly visible character . ’ |
| 11 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 12 | Of course there were still enemies to fight : marauding Goblins continued to cross over the Worlds Edge Mountains , and there were plenty of savage human tribes in the northern forests beyond the Middle Mountains . |
| 13 | And there were plenty of people who would be pleased to tell Councillor Evans that his sister had been seen in the Dog and Duck with an American soldier . |
| 14 | And there were plenty more deals . |
| 15 | But the fourth stomach was contracting well and there were plenty of rumenal sounds . |
| 16 | But it was a first run , and there were plenty of other inspirations . |
| 17 | Not just bars and restaurants — and there were plenty of those — but most of the shops were still open : you could still buy a winter outfit birthday card book or a pressure cooker and lots of people were doing so . |
| 18 | They still had The Highway Code from the Truck , and there were plenty of signs in there . |
| 19 | Mahmoud 's barbs , and there were plenty of them now , for Mahmoud was getting irritated , bounced off his massive self-assurance like wooden arrows off a rock of granite . |
| 20 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 21 | What you would see , of course , were tourists and there were plenty of these . |
| 22 | Buses will operate from the city centre and there were plenty of parking places . |
| 23 | However what happened instead was the cat-calls and the boos and the jeers started almost as soon as this procession came came into Red Square , and there were plenty of banners calling for freedom for Lithuania , there were cries of ‘ shame , shame ’ . |
| 24 | No they were out all day Tuesday , I do n't know where they were , I rang right from phoning our June when I got that letter twenty five past ten and so ten to four were ringing on and off and there were nobody so I do n't know where they were . |
| 25 | I got down there and there were nobody in ! |
| 26 | You see now our Judy 's gone , I mean she weeed everywhere and there were nobody had got the heart to do anything about it . |
| 27 | When I awoke , I was without pants and there were lots of tubes and bottles and I had pain ’ , he said , giving evidence through an interpreter . |
| 28 | When I awoke , I was without pants and there were lots of tubes and bottles and I had pain ’ , he said , giving evidence through an interpreter . |
| 29 | He had no money and he was working very hard every day and there were lots of problems and nobody there to take care of them . |
| 30 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |