Example sentences of "[unc] there was [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er there was something about a servant lass that got pregnant . |
| 2 | And they , then the other ones er there was one with General Motors and it was a , a huge thing , you were ten , it was a huge building , modern building but you just could n't tell what it was from the outside . |
| 3 | Well there was one Well father was in Cross but er there was one in what we called the South End . |
| 4 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |
| 5 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 6 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 7 | They were made to wartime restrictions , wooden seats and erm mass produced really , erm there was none of the erm cushioned seats at all , that were a part of the feature during th before the war . |
| 8 | and , and I 've thought well er no well there was so there was something about the erm they 're trying to form a , a retired teachers ' branch of the N A H T |