Example sentences of "[was/were] there [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean if you count how many people were there when I went to mass when it was a holy day . |
| 2 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 3 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 4 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 5 | There was also a boy called and a girl called who were there and I see them two and every morning as I walk to school . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |
| 7 | There was an embarrassed smile as Leary said : ‘ Oh no , I heard he was there so I walked through the harbour and took a look at it . |
| 8 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 9 | It was there that I made my one and only good find , not of course taking into account the brass washout pipe plate . |
| 10 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 11 | We were fortunate in having an outdoor swimming-pool , and it was there that I learned to swim , and have continued to enjoy swimming the rest of my life . |
| 12 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 13 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 14 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |
| 15 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 16 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
| 17 | It was there and I mean and the rooms were so small . |
| 18 | Lo and behold , when I got to court , this old lady was there and I felt so ashamed and so sorry for her . |
| 19 | And erm our local er press was there and I think he went away and phoned up straight away t to Quix and said , Oh well you know they were twenty five to thirty women in Blaenau I never you know sort of their not your usual erm politicals if you like you know they just . |
| 20 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |
| 21 | And Morgan J well he was the headmaster when I went to school first and he was there when I left and he retired and he was still here You know going about . |
| 22 | ‘ I think he was there when I saw Werner . |
| 23 | Well it was there when I came I do n't know where it Yes . |
| 24 | He was there when I went across the yard yesterday . |
| 25 | He was there when I got there and erm |
| 26 | I wonder if he was there when I blundered in upon Ephraim 's body in my wanderings ? |
| 27 | He was there when I closed the school for the Christmas holidays . |
| 28 | ‘ It was there when I moved in . |