Example sentences of "[verb] there was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the days that followed our plans to backpack up into the hills had to be curtailed because of the weather , but to compensate there was the pleasure of watching Nathan explore the Arctic . |
| 2 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 3 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 4 | While the scrubbing was done Mrs Morey found an occupation which would involve the children , and going there was the highlight of their lives . |
| 5 | And near the Post Office , opposite the Post Office , so they were But the only thing I did n't like there was the houses opposite me They all seemed to be in their windows watching everything . |
| 6 | But but strange to relate er I can remember on you know a number of occasions earning a golden half sovereign , you know real gold it was then , the you know there was the gold coins . |
| 7 | Oh what all things well yes there is the You know there was the the the poker , there 's the poker and the and this and the |
| 8 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
| 9 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 10 | Would n't think there was the room in there for , for women . |
| 11 | Poor Relief When all else failed there was the Poor Law . |
| 12 | Also housed there was the collection of Professor Dr Antun Bauer , the founder of postgraduate museological studies at the University of Zagreb . |
| 13 | I was wondering I mean there may possibly be differences between I mean there was the format that speech generate of the H P and the format that the Sun would use . |
| 14 | Wester Ross , Orkney and North Wales , the areas where one felt there was the strongest community spirit , supported the role of wives . |
| 15 | The most interesting place I saw there was the university , which was full of very clever men , with very clever ideas . |
| 16 | For my part , I think there was the temptation to cause myself pain : to call up the memory of so many anguished partings at railway stations , so much less anguished ( it seemed now ) than the final one . |
| 17 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 18 | She said there was the scanner appeal , the talk about all sorts of other things that were possible and there 's an arts appeal and for arts facilities in hospital and all sorts of things . |