Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |