Example sentences of "was [adj] and [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was free and in a way I was happy . ’ |
| 2 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 3 | The report from the college was favourable and as a consequence two warships were fitted with the apparatus that Priestley devised . |
| 4 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 5 | Looking at these pictures one senses that an explosion was inevitable and in a sense the explosion was the Demoiselles . |
| 6 | He was fidgety and in a dream world when being given instruction in a group . |
| 7 | They said what I was doing was terrible and in a way , from the people 's point of view , it was . |
| 8 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 9 | When it was clear that Henry was outraged and in a mood for immediate retaliatory action , James decided on what in current jargon would be called a pre-emptive strike . |
| 10 | Subjects given pre-exposure to the CS in the test context ( group LI same in the figure ) acquired the CR slowly compared with the control group for whom the CS was novel and with a group of subjects ( LI diff ) that had experienced the CS previously in a different context . |