Example sentences of "have [verb] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows the answer very well : the instance that he has mentioned was a matter for the Ministry of Defence , which looked further into the matter and decided not to pursue it . |
| 2 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 3 | Anyway , what I 'd got was a bag of clothes for Caroline to try |
| 4 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 5 | The Tyre from which I had travelled was a place of unpaved roads and overflowing sewage , of Palestinian camps and fedayeen guerrillas , of guns and sunken ships and the sharp clap of explosions . |
| 6 | What she had seen was a Scarag , impaled through the jaw and hanging limp on Scathach 's lance , which had been driven into the ground . |
| 7 | If what she had done was a sin then it was only right she should be punished . |
| 8 | There is growing opposition in Germany to giving up the deutschmark without any real return in political union , which Chancellor Kohl had said was a precondition of moving to a single currency . |
| 9 | The President of United Motors — who was in London at that moment — had also declined to comment on a local issue which , he had said was a matter for local management . |
| 10 | She applied herself to what she had decided was a prototype . |
| 11 | As Michael Gordon explained in these pages two decades ago : ‘ If all Blake had offered was a framework , that would have been the end of it . |
| 12 | On my return home I discovered that the plant that I had thought was a weed was in fact ‘ The Marvel of Peru ’ , first brought from Peru to Spain in the sixteenth century and John Gerard used to lift the roots in autumn and keep them in a butter firkin filled with sand . |
| 13 | To the south , off Java , we could detect where the mouth of the Lampong river lay , where another survivor , a fisherman , had found himself floundering in a furious inrushing sea , and had seized and ridden for miles inland what he had thought was a log , but discovered to be an equally terrified crocodile . |
| 14 | What Chaplin had needed was a clown whose loneliness , detachment , pathos , optimism , indestructibility , incorrigibility , and vulnerability would allow him to exploit all the humour and tragedy , love and violence that everyday life offered . |
| 15 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 16 | Brick by brick , plasterboard by plasterboard … until all we had left was a pile of rubble . |
| 17 | She did n't actually run from the room to get the hot water and salt ; whatever he had taken was a gesture : it had been enough to knock him out , but it certainly would n't kill . |
| 18 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |