Example sentences of "there were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were something like 41 officials but only 21 players from the home unions at Parc des Princes . |
| 2 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 3 | ‘ I should know if there were something wrong . |
| 4 | If only there were something substantial to hide behind ! |
| 5 | She went through phases when she felt intensely guilty , as if there were something that she could n't quite locate that she had done to provoke her mother 's wrath . |
| 6 | A silence developed , as if there were something left to say . |
| 7 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Gerald , ’ he began slowly , ‘ if there were something fishy , and I were to tell you , could I trust your discretion ? ’ |
| 9 | as if there were something more to say . |
| 10 | This was done from her own home and there were something like fifty thousand sparklers in that house with young children running around . |
| 11 | Well there were them what could get 'em . |
| 12 | Like there were them lads they had fucking four in a glass like and , there was loads of , so many drinks like I served loads . |
| 13 | And where would the All that the families you mentioned there were they all port families ? |
| 14 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 15 | Cos there were we were only getting about five bob a week aye . |
| 16 | When they saw how few Dwarfs there were their confidence returned . |
| 17 | There were their own two children , and thousands of others , in Dynmouth and everywhere . |
| 18 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 19 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 20 | There were what the head called ‘ social concerns ’ behind his transfer . |
| 21 | There were what Cole calls difficulties , but which might better be identified as disadvantages , for the retail co-operatives in so constituting the production arm as to admit the bonus to labour . |
| 22 | " At every Mercantile Marine Office there were what was known as the outdoor staff , or Board of Trade messengers . |
| 23 | There were what , two porters |
| 24 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 25 | Closer , there were her outstretched fingers to study as they burrowed through the sand . |
| 26 | The memory of that puzzling experience still disturbed and excite And then there were her bare feet in the stream and the tadpoles round her ankles , the cherry blossoms which she had thrown in his face , and above all the walk upon the airfield : there was magic there all right . |
| 27 | And there were her looks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All she found there were her hands , big blue veins on the backs of them , not pretty at all . |
| 30 | All over the place there were her completed paintings . |