Example sentences of "and there [was/were] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 2 | You see now our Judy 's gone , I mean she weeed everywhere and there were nobody had got the heart to do anything about it . |
| 3 | We kicked off at eleven and went on till three and there were I think six people stuffing er in the course of the day Bob Andy Mark and myself and Chris . |
| 4 | And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this . |
| 5 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 6 | Read it in detail and you find that most of the examples given related to banks , and there was one relating to a solicitor . |
| 7 | Gary 's given five , I gave five , and there was one left in there so that 's one , two |
| 8 | Hunger , I find , is not a condition to relish , and there was me thinking I had a small appetite . |
| 9 | It 's not the money that 's holding things up , it 's that awful new kit — of course any fashion conscious young man like Raymond would n't be caught in that rig and there was me thinking he was just a low down money grabber . |
| 10 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 11 | half seven bus , and there was me waking at ten past seven picked him up fucking dinner and here 's me I 'm away in here to waken up . |
| 12 | And she was pulling her trolley , pushing mine and there was me toddling up there thinking , This trolleys become |
| 13 | There was something about a girl he wanted to bring and there was something to do with stones . |
| 14 | He paused to hug her and ruffle her hair , then at last the passenger door was swinging open and there was what seemed to Shiona an endless moment before Janice at last stepped into view . |
| 15 | But that little plan was soon put a stop to , for mother would not let me go by myself , and there was nobody to go with me . |
| 16 | His tea tasted excellent , and there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 17 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 18 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 19 | And there was nobody to win over with his now not so pretty face . |
| 20 | And there was nothing to stop him just walking off . |
| 21 | … Nobody bothered about what you were doing and there was nothing to stop you getting on your feet and denouncing the whole of the British Empire ’ ( pp. 48 — 9 ) . |
| 22 | But this was no trip down memory lane and there was nothing to see but books . |
| 23 | And there was nothing to do here . |
| 24 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 25 | The dead had nothing to be frightened of any more , and there was nothing to fear from them . |
| 26 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 27 | Most people were not taxed on their earnings as they were not French citizens , and there was nothing to spend money on apart from cigarettes , beer , and trips into town . |
| 28 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 29 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 30 | Mercifully we had shut the refrigerator and the cupboards after looking in them , and there was nothing to indicate that the visitor had noticed anything amiss . |