Example sentences of "[v-ing] there were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervously smoothing her skirt and praying there were no stains she had missed , she went along the hall and into the living room . |
| 2 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 3 | Living there were Mrs. Dear , her elder daughter , another daughter with her husband who was a main line engine driver and their three children . |
| 4 | Urban land enjoying immunities was confiscated and artisans and traders living there were included in the towns ’ tax-paying rolls . |
| 5 | And when they arrived Great Britain or Britain as it was called then and the people living there were Britons . |
| 6 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 7 | So , on 20 August , he confidently gave the order for an Austrian advance , believing there were no Russian formations to imperil his right flank . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to hide under the covers of my bed at night , imagining there were dragons out there ; in the room when the light was out , when there was nobody else there . |
| 9 | Reasons for wishing there were such things as rights , are not rights ; — a reason for wishing that a certain right were established , is not that right — want is not supply — hunger is not bread … |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm coming — I 'm coming ! ’ she shouted back , wishing there were a key to the door as she quickly applied some light make-up . |
| 11 | Shakenoak produced iron-working debris ( Cleere 1972 ) , whilst at Wakerley and Mucking there were shaft furnaces . |
| 12 | They over-estimated Britain 's housing stock value , reckoning there were far more homes in the top price band than there are . |
| 13 | And that was pretty , it was , it 'd vary in , in some cases but in som it was worse than that and some were better than that , but generally speaking there were a lot of unemployment . |
| 14 | Just a case of reminding there were some problems it 's been a little bit slow because of roadworks on the high street in Banbury as usual because of that water board work that 's continuing . |
| 15 | Thamnophis sirtalis , never realising there were twelve subspecies . |
| 16 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 17 | ‘ I seem to remember Rosalind saying there were two sisters and two brothers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The Liver Birds had just started on television , ’ recalled Allen , ‘ and I remember reading a bit in the paper saying there were very few situation comedies written for women , with women in the lead roles . |
| 19 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
| 20 | But knowing there were so few left |
| 21 | It was difficult not knowing if we 'd be able to give Eleanor everything we wanted to give her and knowing there were things she needed that we could n't afford . |
| 22 | Ted Deerhurst was still worrying over whether , assuming there were a swell , he was going to be given a shot . |
| 23 | Erm and you know er you know they were , he 's saying when the landlords deliberately stopped lending there were many attempts by the peasants to organize credit agencies . |
| 24 | Even before Heseltine announced he was standing there were a number of press smears about some of his closest aides , the worst example being a report in The Sun on 13 November headlined ‘ The Adulterer , The Bungler and The Joker ’ , which Mrs Thatcher was forced publicly to disavow . |
| 25 | They then made two coded telephone warnings to Scotland Yard at 8pm claiming there were four bombs planted in a one-mile radius of the West End which were set to explode at about 8.30pm . |
| 26 | Durham County Council announced the closures last month claiming there were 317 vacancies — the equivalent of eight full homes . |
| 27 | Matters arising there were no matters arising unusually . |
| 28 | Round and fair in person , her small bones were well-covered , and in her carriage and her general bearing there were flexible , undulating movements , like those of an eel . |
| 29 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 30 | Black armoured shrimps nuzzling there were cruisers and troopships which might well dwarf the corvette that Lexandro and the other recruits were sailing in . |