Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the young woman hunched up on a crate , covered in chalk dust and weeping her eyes out , Biff Thacker was rather at a loss what to do . |
| 2 | ‘ And then — I was rather at a loss , I suppose . |
| 3 | In appearance she was rather like a gipsy , and her quick , eager speech had a slightly foreign intonation . |
| 4 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 5 | It was rather like a Loch Lomond bay and more like freshwater fishing in terms of comfort . |
| 6 | One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile . |
| 7 | It was rather like a mid-West movie , as pleasant as that . |
| 8 | The scene was rather like a bull-fight , with Betty , small-eyed , blundering hither and yon dazzled by the whisk of scarlet , the glancing slippers of the matador . |
| 9 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 10 | It was predominantly of a country , not a ‘ high ’ style , pre-eighteenth century and frequently not French , factors which tended to keep Paris-based buyers away while proving too pricey for local people . |
| 11 | The sentence was somewhere between a question and a statement . |
| 12 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 13 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 14 | Unlike his predecessors , he seems to have got his nobles more or less under control , and had pacified the Highlands ; but , like those predecessors , he found that England was rarely in a mood to be pacified . |
| 15 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 16 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 17 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 18 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 19 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 20 | She loved him so passionately , and he was so like a god in her eyes . |
| 21 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 22 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 23 | I was 13 and it was all about a family living with lions , starring my mother , Tippi Hedren , and stepfather Noel Marshall . |
| 24 | It was all for a purpose , of course ; little that I do is not , one way or another . |
| 25 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 26 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 27 | It was all on a scale much more appropriate for children than the high vaulting of his previous school and there was much more play equipment . |
| 28 | The money was all in a pot . |
| 29 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 30 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |