Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] an [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 2 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 3 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 4 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |
| 5 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 6 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 7 | I once astounded a good guitarist friend of mine — who was also an electronics engineer , believe it or not — at the difference in tone and volume between a Whirlwind lead and a cheapo cable . |
| 8 | If we were still an indie band I do n't think Peter would be as interested . |
| 9 | Because there was not an INSET group as such it remained a very individual undertaking throughout . |
| 10 | The Committee was disappointed that there was not an evening round-up of each day 's business ; it found the morning programme a less than adequate substitute . |
| 11 | So You said that there was n't an upstairs downstairs kind of thing at all then ? |
| 12 | There was n't an oil crisis ! |
| 13 | I mean , there was certainly an accident element in , in the , in the physical discovery of the manuscripts , but also it arose out of the historian asking questions , out of the interest that he was wanting to explore . |
| 14 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 15 | Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had |
| 16 | It was n't an emergency question . |
| 17 | The council says it did n't renovate the cottage because it was n't an emergency situation . |
| 18 | It was n't an alarm bell , of course , it was a telephone rigged to an extension bell fitted to the wall of the farmhouse , so that people working outside could hear it . |
| 19 | It was n't an April Fool 's Day joke when engineers working on WCUK 's VAT building in Liverpool announced to colleagues that they could walk on water ! |
| 20 | No it was n't an Intel product , but was the product of a big software company he was sure we were all familiar with . |
| 21 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 22 | When she got to her desk she saw that it would not do ; it was not an essay day but at that rate there would be no essay to write ; she had not done her week 's reading . |
| 23 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 24 | ‘ Although it was partly an ego thing , I can see that Simon probably did love me — in his way . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My father would have said it was merely an animal bribe to turn away the wrath of strangers . |
| 26 | It was originally an acetylene light but was converted to propane gas operation in 1963 . |
| 27 | It was standing , though , but it was only an hour play . |
| 28 | But erm he wa , he was not an opera singer you know , he could n't erm |
| 29 | His name , it seemed , was Simkin , and he was not an aircrew cadet like the rest of us but a regular and a member of the groundstaff ; he worked in the kitchens . |
| 30 | Curate in three college livings between 1749 and 1757 , St Giles ' , Oxford ( 1749 ) , Fyfield until 1755 , and Kirtlington ( 1755–7 ) , he was often an absentee incumbent . |