Example sentences of "there was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a signal for Stirling from Tactical HQ , Eighth Army , said that the RAF component there was unaware of the resupply operation , but that they would endeavour to arrange the aircraft . |
| 2 | There was cub-hunting on Saturday on the next-door farm ; their father talked of going . |
| 3 | So father had to get the men up from Blair Gowrie , there was six of them that came . |
| 4 | Last time I went , there was six of us right , three boys and three girls right , never ever again I 'd do that with a big gang because |
| 5 | four of us , no there was six of us , six or seven of us . |
| 6 | There was six of them ? |
| 7 | Er you 'd occasionally see two of them walking erm around , but unless there was specific for the from for them coming , erm I did see them er going into a flat . |
| 8 | Now er if there was twelve of you |
| 9 | And there was hundreds of contracts like that in the quarry , everybody was on their own for t thing , you know . |
| 10 | In the army , there was hundreds of people were put through selection tests and |
| 11 | Coming back tonight there was hundreds of them ! |
| 12 | Yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall there was music-making on a grand scale by young people from all over the United Kingdom , with a prize for the best overall performance . |
| 13 | There was cunning in the face , too . |
| 14 | With more and more bodegas setting up in Rioja — there was 62 in 1985 , 140 by 1991 — and with sales either static or declining , there seems little for recession-hit bodega bosses to laugh about . |
| 15 | The man who stood there was dark with coal-black eyes . |
| 16 | There was implicit in it , therefore , in the case of Western societies , the idea of a movement towards socialism , particularly when the development of social rights was more strongly emphasized by the creation of welfare states . |
| 17 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 18 | And er I remember one one day , there was nineteen of them . |
| 19 | There was sure to be more . |
| 20 | There was sure to be a considerable though decreasing number of households to which the credit system was indispensable , and whose custom tradesmen must lose if refusing to accede to these terms . |
| 21 | There was sure to be a copy of Hamlet on the shelves . |
| 22 | There was certain to be a good deal of opposition in the Cabinet . |
| 23 | There was all of Mars , practically , if you did n't mind the climate ; and anyone could put up a tube . |
| 24 | Because what I saw there was that as a single function as a single function . |
| 25 | There was much of this , a few small side-bets , and plenty of mixing between the generations . |
| 26 | Not that there was much of that around here . |
| 27 | I looked down , could n't see much and around three quarters of the way along asked Tony whether there was much of a drop , ‘ Not really ’ , came the reply , ‘ about 60ft ’ . |
| 28 | Snowing patiently , for there was much of it on the ground , many snowdrops to be restored like white souls to the heavens . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there was much to be commended in the way Britain relinquished the reins of empire . |
| 30 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |