Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] there [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in a sense there was a kind of instant , automatic , mechanical , ‘ I 'm the big man , you 're the offending person in this respect ’ feeling about it , it was a one-way system anyway . |
| 2 | Just for a moment there was an uncomfortable something in the air . |
| 3 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
| 4 | ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE NO ADVENTURE GAMES … |
| 5 | Once upon a time there were three little piggies . |
| 6 | Once upon a time there were three bears . |
| 7 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 8 | According to a Sumerian poet : ‘ Once upon a time there was no snake , there was no scorpion , / There was no hyena , there was no lion , / There was no wild dog , no wolf , / There was no fear , no terror , / Man had no rival . ’ |
| 9 | Once upon a time there was a film with a jolly popular song , sung as a duet . |
| 10 | Once upon a time there was a little boy called Steven Spielberg who refused to grow up . |
| 11 | Once upon a time there was something called soul . |
| 12 | Once upon a time there was the offer of a lifetime from Books for Children . |
| 13 | Once upon a time there was in the UK a Director of Flight Safety , but this office has been abolished . |
| 14 | Among modern believers , it is generally assumed that once upon a time there was a ‘ pure ’ form of Christianity preached by Paul , from which various ‘ deviations ’ — that is , ‘ heresies ’ — subsequently occurred . |
| 15 | ‘ Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep , and his name was Tom … ’ |
| 16 | Well , once upon a time there was no world at all . |
| 17 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 18 | ONCE upon a time there was a stocky little ice skater who fell in love with her tall , fair-haired partner . |
| 19 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 20 | ONCE upon a time there was a postman called Pat and he lived in a village called Greendale , along with his black and white cat , Jess . |
| 21 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 22 | They reached the end of the passage , but instead of a picture there was only a dark brown door , marked with the letters WC . |
| 23 | He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking . |