Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 2 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 3 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 4 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 5 | The garnet-work on the sword , however , may indicate Gothic influence , although the use of garnets was soon to become something of a speciality of the Franks . |
| 6 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 7 | but that she was also winning something of a reputation as a tough cookie , a determined career girl refusing to be deflected from her dreams . |
| 8 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 9 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 10 | Waugh and Orwell took opposite sides on Ethiopia and Spain ; but not on Hitler , for whom Waugh never showed a particle of sympathy , and his anti-Hitlerism was even to become something like a practical ideal for Orwell . |
| 11 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 12 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |