Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 2 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 3 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 4 | There was at least a proviso that she should be asked for her written consent before the company was set up but otherwise she was not mentioned in his plans for the future of the schools . |
| 5 | There was at least a sufficiency of migrant Italian house and garden servants , who rendered any conventional mother 's help more than redundant . |
| 6 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 7 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 8 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 9 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |
| 10 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 11 | This was to achieve little save loss , but it was at least a factor in bringing the German attack at Verdun to an end . |
| 12 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 13 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it was at least a change . |
| 15 | Oh it was on quite a lot . |
| 16 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 17 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 18 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 19 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |