Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 2 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 3 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 4 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 5 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 6 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 7 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |
| 8 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 9 | This was to achieve little save loss , but it was at least a factor in bringing the German attack at Verdun to an end . |
| 10 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 11 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it was at least a change . |
| 13 | Oh it was on quite a lot . |
| 14 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 15 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |