Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |
| 2 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 3 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 4 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 5 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Bob rose to the challenge and in January 1991 his first task was to replace hundreds of original magnesium allow rivets , which were good enough for a static rebuild , but not if the aircraft was to fly again . |
| 7 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 8 | Since it was believed to be worth over £13,000 it was an amazing bargain , but one which was available only to a purchaser with immense cash reserves . |
| 9 | It mingled with the smell of dog 's dinner which was simmering casually in a huge open vat : nameless portions of meat floated occasionally to the surface , nudging aside whole carrots . |
| 10 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 11 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 12 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |
| 13 | PRS and Patrick Eggle have revived this fashion , which was predominant once upon a time on Gibson 's ES345/355 models . |
| 14 | In other words , basic steward training was not financed out of additional funding , which was devoted instead to a union-controlled programme which tackled more advanced issues . |
| 15 | Here , however , she was alone apart from a couple of men seated on stools next to the bar , and a yellow Labrador slumbering at their feet . |
| 16 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 17 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |
| 18 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 19 | An earlier court hearing was told that the woman awoke one morning to be confronted by McKenzie , who was naked apart from a pair of underpants on his head . |
| 20 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 21 | only we were stuck there for a little while last time could n't get out could we ? |
| 22 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 23 | He did , and there was quiet again for a few days more . |
| 24 | Another landing when they were close together for a moment , and then another descent . |
| 25 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |
| 26 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 27 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 28 | It was all just like a pathetic fallacy . |
| 29 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 30 | It was empty apart from a round wooden table , a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard . |