Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 2 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 3 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 4 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 5 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 6 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 7 | Was able to please a customer . |
| 8 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 9 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 10 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |