Example sentences of "there [vb past] [be] [noun pl] [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 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 10 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 15 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 16 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 19 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 20 | From the late seventeenth century there had been complaints of increasing wickedness , crime and disorder . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 23 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 24 | There had been fears about his position after he met namesake Albert Reynolds , the Eire Premier , a few weeks ago . |
| 25 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 26 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 27 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 28 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 29 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 30 | In the event there had been complications during labour and the baby was born by caesarean section while she was under general anaesthetic . |