Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] there [be] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were eating off silver plates and suddenly there was this toad . |
| 2 | ‘ We came off the M4 and suddenly there was this maniac in the middle of the road , flagging us down . |
| 3 | And so there was this sort of propaganda campaign that was done through advertising to insist that women should n't have off days any more . |
| 4 | And so there was this campaign to persuade women to change . |
| 5 | ‘ And now there 's this Herr Hitler . |
| 6 | And now there 's this Englishman asking about them : will you ring the police or shall I ? |
| 7 | And now there was this new word . |
| 8 | First I 'm called ‘ darling ’ by an actor and then there 's this apparition of loveliness . |
| 9 | And then there 's this big thing about artistic separation ; you 're allowed to sing about these things in a completely gratuitous manner because you 're a singer in a group and you can just stand back from it . |
| 10 | And then there 's this other bloke , computer wizard , Texan , big ears , worth $1 billion plus change . |
| 11 | And then there 's this other one where i where it loses electrons , that 's sort of stretching it a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 13 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 14 | And then there 's this boy . ’ |
| 15 | And then there 's this one as well . |
| 16 | could of chose a better one , erm having said that the second part there 's two parts , there 's this scene in the pub and then there 's this er scene on the cliff top and the second scene one 's a bit better |
| 17 | Alright , and then there 's this extraordinary bit erm , that George has in the middle of page thirty , about what happened when he did run the history department for four years during the War . |
| 18 | And then there 's this |
| 19 | tip your coke , why do n't you tip your coffee back in there and then there 's this coke |
| 20 | and there 's like an old pick-up-ey type thing and then there 's this young lad and a , in a work 's Escort van and then there was me and I thought oh bit of a blow being behind this lot , but there 's not many places to overtake down there so I was |
| 21 | More , more more and then there 's this other one right , you get |
| 22 | Like you know , you 're sort of waiting for it , and then there 's this now would you like , and I thought , I have n't given my answer yet , and then erm , and just leave my name , cos I think |
| 23 | And then there 's this girl called Susie , saying to her , she 's getting all her clothes off and all that . |
| 24 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 25 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 26 | And then there was this memorable exchange : ‘ Vic , can I have a couple of words please ? ’ |
| 27 | And then there was this tremendous musical development in a very short period of time — one or two generations — and by the twenties they 're playing jazz-swing , very well . ’ |
| 28 | And then there was this obnoxious man 's involvement with Chester 's to think of … if she allowed her instincts full rein and indulged her true feelings at this stage might n't she be jeopardising Charles 's hopes of help for Chester 's ? |
| 29 | you know this is the sort of thing and really , you know , sort of cropped hair and enormous moustaches like yard brushes , or this is the story that was told to me , and , and then there was this , all this , all this chortling about why their moustaches were so lubricant , oh yes , er so , so luxurious er rather , I beg your pardon , and erm |
| 30 | And then there was this he sa the green knight said I am I having some chocolate ? |