Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] there was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she looked back at the window there was the face again ; but it was attempting now to smile . |
| 2 | Lights were already showing back down the road along which they had come , and in the distance there was the sound of shots being fired . |
| 3 | In the beginning there was THE FACE , and THE FACE was Jerry Dammers . |
| 4 | When Tony looked in the catalogue there was the Lagonda . |
| 5 | In the background there was the sound of Cobalt 's doorbell but there was too much noise from the street below for them to hear any more . |
| 6 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 7 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 8 | At the time there was the recognition that " society was on the brink of a great struggle between property and population " . |
| 9 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 10 | Once upon a time there was the offer of a lifetime from Books for Children . |