Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora roared , without knowing why , just knowing something was violently the matter . |
| 2 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |
| 3 | She 'd encountered any number of stars who thought themselves special simply because of their fame , but this one was clearly the king of them all . |
| 4 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 5 | The upper path was deep in mud : the lower one was now a stream . |
| 6 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
| 7 | service 6 met at Mitcham Fair Green and the passenger was encouraged to think that one was merely an extension of the other . |
| 8 | No doubt there were many reasons , but one was undoubtedly the fact that , whereas Mrs. T. was a fervent Jehovah 's Witness , Mr. T. emphatically rejected that faith . |