Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 2 | Er they were a bit erm er all the C N D group , I 'm saying this now with no disrespect or anything . |
| 3 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 4 | I think that 's what Tony 's harking back to , the old style when you went and they were a bit er callous . |
| 5 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 6 | And when you were a student erm who was paying for your training ? |
| 7 | i i i it was because of the doctor was too stupid to diagnose breast cancer when he saw it , urged my mother to have another baby told her it was a mastectomy erm er sorry erm |
| 8 | There was a firm 6×4 cm swelling to the right of the midline scar in the adbomen which was presumed to be the recurrent tumour . |
| 9 | Whenever she was early because there was a christening erm on and they were using the hall afterwards . |
| 10 | And then I had come from erm what shall we say , a general , my grandparents had kept a general shop and general I mean , from baking , he was a baker er a butcher a coalman and my grandmother saw after the haberdashery , hats etcetera and the grocery . |
| 11 | Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children |
| 12 | So really there 's only that item w w we felt that particular one was a bit er a bit steep and er the rest was er a a difference in emphasis , I would suspect , coupled with shortage of time |
| 13 | mm , but there was a bit er , you know where the legs moved ? |
| 14 | It may well be of course that father was a bit er all dog and no cat sort of person , you know ? |
| 15 | When we first moved in , April last year , it was a bit bit cold . |
| 16 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 17 | because that , he wanted to go up for a medical which was a bit erm , unethical , but I do n't know whether it 's true it 's , you know it 's just what someone said |
| 18 | Erm I was , I was a bit erm about that , you know , I just though what on earth now ? |
| 19 | Yeah , I , I thought that was a bit erm |
| 20 | It was a bit everything-but-the-kitchen-sink on sexual politics , and its switches from comedy to Myra McFadden 's chilling incest victim 's song might have been a bit startling , but I still felt pleased with it and learned ( I hope ) an awful lot from it , mainly about structure which I find hard , and how to pinch plots from people who knew how to do it . |
| 21 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 22 | The aquarium chosen was a standard 36″x15″x12″. with filtration by undergravel and two uplifts . |
| 23 | and there was a hole er on the floor over there with a grating on it that was you could see through to the ground . |
| 24 | Oh I 'm glad you went , I 'm glad it was a success bec |
| 25 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 26 | There was a sailing er what do they call it , a here and it was him that he asked would could you send a boy there . |
| 27 | And he goes to me it was a Boss h you know Boss the , the make , the clothes and the perfume and everything ? |
| 28 | I i across the road you see , er There was a road er opposite . |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | It was it was o it was a utility Er now it depends on your age now , you 're going to have to admit something here you see . |