Example sentences of "[subord] there was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 500 people attended the lunch in the hotel ballroom where there was seating for only 400 . |
| 2 | Nigel did n't appear to notice her lack of ardour , but went blithely on about having the house to himself for the weekend , so there was going to be a party , and he 'd come and fetch her — |
| 3 | ‘ If there was going to be a bid , I wanted to make sure we would have a place at the negotiating table , ’ he says . |
| 4 | If there was going to be trouble — serious trouble — then , they 'd know about it . |
| 5 | Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go . |
| 6 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
| 7 | If there was going to be trouble , she might as well make herself as comfortable as possible . |
| 8 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |