Example sentences of "was a [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , I know yer ca n't be servin' all the time , but I was a bit narked the way yer was sittin' wiv that Don Jacobs . |
| 2 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 3 | To help administer it , there was a body called the Central Policy Review Staff ( CPRS ) which reviewed policies interdepartmentally . |
| 4 | Perhaps its most coherent exposition was a book called The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century , published in 1899 by Houston Stewart Chamberlain , an Englishman naturalized as a German . |
| 5 | But her favourite was a book called The Golden Windows , a Sunday School prize of her mother 's . |
| 6 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought the Stock Exchange was a place called the Stockings Changed , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | On one occasion it was a group called the Fine Young Cannibals who made the journey , to discuss Virgin 's offer for the rights to their song-publishing . |