Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 2 | There was , I 'm glad to er , note widespread support for the section guidelines , as one colleague says , we were left in something of a limbo and we 've got ta fill that gap . |
| 3 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 5 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 6 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 7 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 8 | The move from the international and political to the insular and personal was interrupted by something of a lull in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
| 10 | Even as she switched off her light , there came a low sibilant whistling ; this was followed by something between a gargle and a hiccup . |
| 11 | All the lovely prickles and twists stopped and she was left with nothing but a feeling of panic , able to think of nothing but how could she stop him without making him angry . |
| 12 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 13 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 14 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 15 | It would work fine if the bass E head was changed for one with a shorter post , like that of the A string . |