Example sentences of "there be [pron] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 2 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 3 | She had asked if there were anything I wanted from England , and I asked her to bring a large , old-fashioned teddy bear for my small Greek godson , George . |
| 4 | When he saw there were none he sighed , ‘ What will not malice and slander invent ? ’ |
| 5 | But when he was n't conducting affairs of state , there 's nothing he enjoyed more for getting away from it all , than fly fishing . |
| 6 | Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ? |
| 7 | Course there 's nobody who loved the world more than what I did . |
| 8 | The walls and the floors of her newly redecorated palace -rather garish many thought — are bare , The carpets and the pictures have been created and flown to one of her other homes — perhaps to Juan-les-Pins , perhaps top one of her two places in Paris , perhaps to the house of her fabulously rich businessman son on London , or perhaps to his island in the Seychelles , Her other son , a naval officer who will later pass , briefly and tragically , through this story , dined in his mothers palace one night in October 1978 and , pointing to the one picture remaining on the wall , said , " There 's one they forgot to take . |
| 9 | But there 's one I thought how stupid . |
| 10 | Client , you know there 's something I 'd forgotten all about . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's something I wanted to speak to you about , Hans . |
| 12 | But there 's something I did n't tell you . |
| 13 | but there 's there 's something I did n't tell you the other day |
| 14 | If there 's anything I forgot put it down to old age and I 'll try and remember next time . ’ |
| 15 | so if there 's anything you said they like to watch it , if you want to tape anything for them |
| 16 | Among all these famous names there is one who knew them all , and who perhaps in his own way did as much as they to popularize , and incidentally to record , the Lake District at the turn of the century . |
| 17 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 18 | ‘ There is something I wished to ask you , Louise , ’ he said hesitantly . |
| 19 | I said then well I said from the time now , I said there is nobody I said , can sleep on those mattresses . |
| 20 | But that gives the wrong impression , for there was nothing whatever contrived about the effect . |
| 21 | There was nothing which resembled the missing page . |
| 22 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 23 | Augustine recognized that Paul 's words touched everything : there was nothing he had which he had not received . |
| 24 | He elaborated but there was nothing he had not already told Wickham . |
| 25 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 26 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 27 | Mr Dass did not reply , for there was nothing he felt he might have said . |
| 28 | There was nothing he said that I did not recognize as being the expression of my own heart . |
| 29 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 30 | There was nothing he liked better than a good puzzle . |