Example sentences of "[that] there were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reminded me that there were plenty in his early lifetime . |
| 2 | Disgusted , Douglas shouted that there were plenty of trees on the village green to hang all these , and ordered the sad crew to be herded back to their burning homes . |
| 3 | But as the days passed , she discovered that there were plenty of people willing to console her . |
| 4 | Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory . |
| 5 | The Warden pointed out the most likely spot for short-eared owls on the hunt for stranded voles , told us that there were plenty of field fare about , and said it was a good year for ruff . |
| 6 | Everyone knew that there were plenty of smaller access points from Vadinamia 's interior to its surface . |
| 7 | We know that there were plenty of other animal groups around , but in that period the trilobites seem to have dominated almost everywhere . |
| 8 | They discovered that there were lots of things that would make the ‘ wrong ’ sort of leaf develop . |
| 9 | I was trying to pretend that there were lots of people loving us there . |
| 10 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 11 | I was astonished and er I knew that there were there was a similar incident in Gatwick and erm I knew that our crew were quite er highly trained and highly experience on the European routes and Gatwick especially we have very frequent flights to Gatwick . |
| 12 | We knew that right away that there were there were no future . |
| 13 | This is final year , ninety four is the final year of that grant , so to maintain the enhanced level of service that there were it was set up we 'd need to put some of our own money into that . |
| 14 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 15 | A former North Vietnamese army officer told the Senate select committee on MIA-POW Affairs that some US prisoners had been buried by Cuban and Soviet personnel in 1972 , but that there were none now alive in Vietnam . |
| 16 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |