Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] there was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered the copy of Ruggiero 's letter , and realized that there was something he could do after all . |
| 2 | The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ? |
| 3 | Br. , 1991 , 27 , 821 ) , and believed that there was something important for us there . |
| 4 | ‘ Normally , I would shoot through anything — but that day it rained and rained and there was nothing to be done about it , ’ Gerald says . |
| 5 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |
| 6 | I thought of the contents of the suitcase and decided that there was something in what he said . |
| 7 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 8 | But anyway when y when you were first exploring erm the needs and Maggie came back to you and offered erm this , this policy that she wanted for her daughter , but you never actually went back and saw if there was anything else , you never came back |
| 9 | My conviction on this count was based on the fact that I had researched this area very well and knew that there was nothing on record . |