Example sentences of "was a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a little work to do , fetching and carrying about the kitchens , for which he would get ten shillings a week . |
| 2 | And the third was a little glass key , wrought into fantastic fragile shape , and glittering with all the colours of the rainbow . |
| 3 | I was a little way ahead before they moved off . |
| 4 | There was a little silence between them , then they moved on . |
| 5 | There was a little silence . |
| 6 | There was a little silence . |
| 7 | He was a little way behind her when she knocked on the study door . |
| 8 | There was a little colour in his face and a brightness in his eye . |
| 9 | The damaged one was still working , although it was a little way out of alignment . |
| 10 | There was a little silence , but I knew he was pent up . |
| 11 | She was a little way from Alexei , and when he saw her riding off the offworlder reined around after her . |
| 12 | There was a little silence , then the sound of movement in the bed as she sat up . |
| 13 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 14 | There was a little silence . |
| 15 | There was a little silence . |
| 16 | There was a little silence . |
| 17 | All they 'd needed was a little luck , and he had refused to help . |
| 18 | There was a little silence . |
| 19 | There was a little silence . |
| 20 | There was a little silence . |
| 21 | There was a little silence . |
| 22 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 23 | Oh no it was a that would be a misnomer if ever there was one , because there was room for a table and four chairs and perhaps a settee and that was it . |
| 24 | Er but this er that was a that was a er decision of the er er of the German command , of the German army that was in Spain . |
| 25 | Apart from organising his domestic life , Stella Pullman was a disciplinarian in the old British landlady tradition ( her husband was a former RAF pilot who now flew for BOAC ) . |
| 26 | The first of these now widespread services began , in the summer of 1984 , between Chester and Newport , run by Gylee Enterprises ( whose ‘ operating manager ’ was a former Travellers-Fare station catering manageress ) . |
| 27 | He was a former horse-vet who provided the teachers with food when it was short , criticized the priests , and guarded the local fire-carts . |
| 28 | Ramsey was a former nonconformist who had not lost the idea that Churches must be free from entanglement with the State . |
| 29 | She was a former civil servant and escaped death only by telling her interrogators that she was a peasant . |
| 30 | Here as one of the latest winners of the Ivan Sutton Recording Prize was a former pupil of Harle , the Irishman , Gerard McChrystal , a performer of such striking personality that , given the right backing , he might become the James Galway of the saxophone , though not every musician would want to . |