Example sentences of "there [vb past] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 2 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 3 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 4 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 5 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 6 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 7 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 8 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 9 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 10 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 11 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 12 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 13 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
| 14 | There had been speculation over his future after he was dropped by the South-West . |
| 15 | There had been speculation over the candidacy since the SPD 's defeat in the 1990 general election and Engholm 's election as party chair the following May [ see pp. 37904-05 ; 38199 ] . |
| 16 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 17 | Shildon said mail order lingerie was an area the business section had too long ignored , Rain insisted that knickers were gossip column fodder and Harbury remarked that it could probably be shown there had been offences under the Post Office Act . |
| 18 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 20 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 21 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 22 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 23 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 24 | Pressures from the consumer market to go for cheaper and more efficient plant ( which earlier , when there had been competition from generation by private industry , was a major spur to efficiency for CEB planners and the undertakings ) was now less effective . |
| 25 | Although there had been correspondence with the Beddington and Wallington Council about the low bridge in Manor Road , Wallington , the new routing avoided that too . |
| 26 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 27 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 28 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 29 | From the late seventeenth century there had been complaints of increasing wickedness , crime and disorder . |
| 30 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |