Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 2 | It was rather like a Loch Lomond bay and more like freshwater fishing in terms of comfort . |
| 3 | It was rather like a mid-West movie , as pleasant as that . |
| 4 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 5 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 6 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 7 | Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer . |
| 8 | ‘ Goodnight , little one , ’ he bade her softly , and Fabia was suddenly in a dream world again . |
| 9 | And though we know also that in early periods , and especially and persistently in certain forms — drama , dance , choral song — production was not even in this manifest sense individual but was necessarily of a group kind , still the emphasis on ‘ the producer ’ , ‘ the author ’ , remains predominant , because it corresponds quite directly to the manifest conditions of production in writing and in print , and to certain oral forms which directly preceded them . |
| 10 | Eric was away on a school cruise , so there would only be me and her . |
| 11 | The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals . |
| 12 | Still got an hole here , that was just with a pellet gun that was . |
| 13 | She was just like a movie star . |
| 14 | Mrs Gotobed was downstairs in a room Carrie had not been into before ; a light , pretty drawing-room , all gilt chairs and mirrors . |
| 15 | As long as I was in the country I was home on a Friday night and them again till Monday morning . |
| 16 | At one stage the Guernsey was used as a draught animal and later for beef , but its prime role was always as a milk producer . |
| 17 | He could n't forget he 'd been an Army sergeant , he talked like one and acted as if he was still on a parade ground or something . |
| 18 | I was still under a care order so the Social Services put me in a hostel . |
| 19 | He was still in a silk robe , in his office , staring dully at the grey morning beyond the windows . |
| 20 | But the unrepentant former boxer was still in a fighting mood last night — if not exactly smelling of roses . |
| 21 | The mist was now so dense it was more like a sea fog , the humidity very high and the sweat dripping from my forehead as I leaned forward , my eyes straining to see through the murk . |
| 22 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 23 | it was more like a training session at times , but Gloucester need all the points and all the confidence they can get . |
| 24 | He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens . |
| 25 | It was more like a neighbourhood argument than a political address . |
| 26 | Where Ireland 's performance was a fanfare for a bright future , England 's was more like a requiem mass . |
| 27 | I thought Welsh rugby was slow , but the band 's rendition of Flower of Scotland was more like a death march . |
| 28 | Stockton 's City Challenge bid document was also on a Whitehall desk in London today . |
| 29 | Although his trip to America in 1946 was partly of a business nature , that business could be combined with pleasure in meeting his " authors " , such as Auden and Djuna Barnes . |
| 30 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |