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vb. (form of simple past singular there be English)
Usage examples of "there was".
If you got a flack on the line, he or she would tell you that your life was actually fine, that there was not a thing wrong with it, and in any event it would be a lot better after the next upgrade was rolled out.
Then I realized that there was nothing to fear in death, that, in fact, it must be an enjoyable and exciting event, with nothing to be afraid of.
But there was, and is, a good reason for using this particular kind of technology.
It arrived on a stack of floppy disks about a foot high, and so there was plenty of time for my excitement to build during the endless installation process.
Why not, if there was no Light to control it, no Compassion to restrain it?
And there was another sound, intermit- tent but persistent: beyond the mountain, they were bombing fault lines.