Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 2 | But within the NPKTF , it was successfully recruiting a number of the unskilled or " auxiliary " women workers in the printing trade . |
| 3 | With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s . |
| 4 | When he was eventually offered a chair , at the age of sixty-eight , it was not in Britain but at Harvard . |
| 5 | Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK . |
| 6 | Time was imperative as the pressure was on to produce a result that would enable Stoddard Templeton to achieve a Spring Launch for the new product . |
| 7 | The learned Chief Justice had already dealt with inevitable accident , so that he was presumably contemplating a case in which the presence of A's goods on C's land was due , not to that , but to the tort of A or of someone else for whose act A was in some way or other responsible . |
| 8 | The Chester case was widely considered a test the government 's response to development pressures on open land surrounding other historic cities in Britain . |
| 9 | The attempt in the 1890s to turn headmen into policemen in Kurunagala was widely considered a failure , and even officials responsible for the province at the time emphasized the importance of coconut plantations in the decline of cattle theft . |
| 10 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 11 | A smart cock chaff inch was fiercely chasing a rival out of his patch . |
| 12 | ‘ I was merely passing a comment , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | I was merely asking a question . |
| 14 | I was merely posing a hypothesis . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps the constable who carried out the test was merely having a run of bad luck . |
| 16 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |
| 17 | This was all getting a bit like the Paul Daniels show . |
| 18 | It was all making a silk purse out of a sow 's ear . ’ |
| 19 | The pubs I was in had a crackin atmosphere , and when ruddock scored I guess it was almost like when Leeds get a goal … not that us leeds folks have got anything against the scum you understand ! ! ! |
| 20 | I said he and they wo n't , it 's not their fault because I could n't , I ca n't go up there was obviously singing a song , and another one singing a poem , so you wo n't know which one to believe . |
| 21 | She was obviously taking a risk as the up passenger train was almost due and up main signals had been switched to off . |
| 22 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 23 | He remained utterly fearless throughout his playing career with us , although towards the end of it he was constantly dislocating a shoulder . ’ |
| 24 | Neville Chamberlain was naturally offered a return to the Treasury . |
| 25 | Kelly was down to ride a two-year-old called Billy Liar for second lot . |
| 26 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 27 | I was only telling a colleague of yours today that the investigation into Mills ’ murder left a lot to be desired . ’ |
| 28 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 29 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 30 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |