Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was a spare fuel tank she did n't know about it . |
| 2 | Now this was a retrospective analysis bit it was done on prospectively recorded information . |
| 3 | Yes he was a good travelling companion I should |
| 4 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 5 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 6 | And er he was a first class tradesman you know , really really made quite good stuff . |
| 7 | There was a ninety-five percent probability they would be hostile . |
| 8 | you see if it was a fine stand crop you could cut quite a bit but if it was all raffled it took a while . |
| 9 | But if it was a light repair job it would be a day . |
| 10 | No there was a full time education I put that Supposed to pay for them . |
| 11 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |