Example sentences of "there was a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 2 | There was a spinney they 'd made their own , by the river . |
| 3 | Before we leave erm seventeen fours erm sheet , the there was a question I 'd have , I think it 's probably addressed to Graham rather than anything , nothing personal about this , er , the actual state of equivalent in the month , the third figure down in the last box |
| 4 | Anyone would think there was a law which stipulated that to call yourself a specialist in private medicine , you needed the necessary training and experience . |
| 5 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 6 | Well I swear there was a moon I swear there was a moon earlier . |
| 7 | If there was a moon it was behind clouds , causing brightness without form , a glow in the heavens , life struggling to pierce the confusing fog . |
| 8 | If there was a moon she used to go out into the yard , and look at the moon , and prophesy what the world was going to be like tomorrow . |
| 9 | ‘ She was threatening to go to London and if she did there was a possibility she would upset Berenice ; I ca n't risk that . ’ |
| 10 | He had informed Vitor that there was a possibility she might be having his child ? |
| 11 | And er , there was a bloke I used to play football . |
| 12 | However there was a problem which the cost-push explanation of inflation found impossible to surmount , namely , that it does not readily lend itself to rigorous empirical verification . |
| 13 | Out of my box on this bomber , I remembered there was a bird I fancied at St. Martin 's — Virginia . |
| 14 | Just in case there was a Jonesy you know . |
| 15 | And er there there was a major who 'd only got one eye . |
| 16 | And to say as much — to think as much — was to admit religion , to admit that life held more than the grave at the end of it , to admit that there was a spirit which transcended the poor imperfect flesh . |
| 17 | Erm yeah cos you know before we had the fence and then there was a gate which was quite tall ? |
| 18 | ‘ If there was a God he would not have let this happen . ’ |
| 19 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 20 | There was a psalm he wanted to say before he went , but he could only remember the beginning of it , so he repeated the words over and over again : " Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee , O Lord : Lord hear my voice … " |
| 21 | There was a widow who came to me |
| 22 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 23 | There was a passageway which ended with an abrupt vertical drop into darkness , but it had a conveniently adjacent stalagmite for attaching a rope . |
| 24 | Eventually there was a settlement which leant in the Admiralty direction . |
| 25 | There was a cassette which provided a background commentary , a monologue about the glory of dying in the arms of a comrade at Christmas as the stars above sung out the glory of the Lord . |
| 26 | First of all I thought the nursing staff was nice , but there was a couple who were right bitches . |
| 27 | ‘ If there was a divorce it would be very difficult for Charles to become king . |
| 28 | Blanche was confined to bed most of the time ; he did n't stay long because she was so weary and there was a nurse who bustled him out . |
| 29 | There was a nurse who sat with me and held my hand through that night . |
| 30 | There was a song they used to sing called ‘ The Debauchee ’ . |