Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 2 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 3 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 4 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 5 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 6 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 7 | Artemis 's father was away for a week 's sport in Leicestershire , and apparently it was expected of Artemis that she should be ready and able to go out and ride her new horse side-saddle alongside her father on his return . |
| 8 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 9 | No actually it was just , it was just like a question erm find X. That |
| 10 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 11 | CHIRPY Les Dawson was back in a dame 's frock yesterday for a knees up with Linda Lusardi . |
| 12 | I was out at a friend 's house , we were opening a bottle of beer , the top had jammed , and I stuck it in the heel of the door to get the top off , and it exploded , I suppose it was too shaken up with everyone handling it . |
| 13 | She would need at least one room that was n't like a builder 's yard , ’ Sam says . |
| 14 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |