Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | only we were stuck there for a little while last time could n't get out could we ? |
| 4 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 5 | Both the Shepherds were silent again for a long time , and in the tiny cellar Ho started shivering violently . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK . |
| 8 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The symbolism was potent enough for a hundred generations to keep the chalk clear |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did , and there was quiet again for a few days more . |