Example sentences of "and there [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were the twelve evil Lords who served the necromancer Medoc . |
| 2 | ‘ And there were the Twelve Companions of Odysseus and the Twelve faithful Apostles , ’ said Snizort . |
| 3 | And there were the two , four , six dark patches where the feet , hands and eyes had been and the water had yet to dry out … |
| 4 | There was myself , with an increasingly foolish smile on my face — and there were the two in their green shadow . |
| 5 | The sun was low in the sky now , shimmering the mud flats in a golden glow — and there were the graceful avocets , sweeping long curved bills from side to side through the fine silt , scooping up their favourite opossum shrimps and rag worms : a marvellous sight . |
| 6 | On the other hand they did n't ignore education , and there were the usual perceptive comments on the science curriculum in Britain 's schools . |
| 7 | The rents were raised , to general dissatisfaction , but were still inadequate to cover the maintenance costs of a poorly constructed building and there were the usual acrimonious disputes between the tenants and the landlords . |
| 8 | Most of the British leadership still wished to retain the upper hand wherever possible , and there were the usual doubts as to American consistency of purpose . |
| 9 | Life by that time had appeared on land above sea level , and there were the first plants and terrestrial invertebrates . |
| 10 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 11 | Dotted here and there were the various sized pine coverts . |
| 12 | There were the few of us who cared , and there were the silly ones , the snobbish ones , the would-be debutantes and the daddy 's darlings and the horsophiles and the sex-cats . |
| 13 | Towards Hammersmith was the river and its pubs , full of hollering middle-class voices ; and there were the secluded gardens which fringed the river along Lower Mall and the shaded stroll along the towpath to Barnes . |
| 14 | Three weeks later Oliver came back from somewhere exotic , and there were the three of us . |
| 15 | ‘ this was our first match and there were the inevitable nerves . |
| 16 | And there was the great Lord Byron , a powerful name , a man well known to espouse the cause of freedom . |
| 17 | The forest thinned to a plateau of wind-worn scrubland and there was the aromatic scent of rosemary and thyme . |
| 18 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 19 | And there was the like for the corn and that we used to what we called hammling it was done with a flail . |
| 20 | For South Korea there was no love of Japan and there was the current controversy arising from Japanese treatment of the sizeable Korean community living in Japan . |
| 21 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 22 | Both Kirkman Finlay and Dixon were Whigs , the Tory nominees in the Burgh Councils not having obtained the burgh nomination , and there was the curious position of two candidates from the same party contesting the same Parliamentary seat . |
| 23 | There was the fictitious crisis involving tourists dying of food poisoning in Portugal , and another concerning a foreign minister who vanished without trace in Budapest , and there was the Chilean dope smuggler arrested in Miami who was found to have sixteen wives . |
| 24 | And there was the unspoken assumption that , if I failed , I was letting the side down , disappointing my parents , hurting them . |
| 25 | Directly he had done praying he looked up , and there was the sun-god standing beside him . |
| 26 | And there was the strong smell of hot tar . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the examination helped to focus attention on relevant facts and issues about the situation , although drawing the rich picture was quite difficult , and there was the usual tendency to include too much detail . |
| 28 | And there was the usual squad of veterans , some selling T-shirts , many with POW/MIA hats and stickers . |
| 29 | They sent a chopper and an ambulance to recover the body and there was the usual swarm of gendarmes rushing around . ’ |
| 30 | On the other hand , the King was ill and there was the usual pressure for a Tory/Liberal combination to keep Labour out . |