Example sentences of "was [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 2 | Although she was due a week later in Glasgow , I did not go there . |
| 3 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 4 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 5 | Soon after this was complete a spur line from Stratford to wharves at Bow Creek , extended to North Woolwich , was added . |
| 6 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 7 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 8 | He was free a year later , however , when he was licensed under the Declaration of Indulgence , as a Baptist , to preach at his house in Chertsey . |
| 9 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 10 | And last night Robert Sheldon , chairman of the powerful Commons public accounts committee — which oversees all Government spending — was convinced a pay cut would happen . |
| 11 | He was thoughtful a moment . |
| 12 | As was customary a number of items such as galvanised baths , water cans and garden implements were hung on hooks outside , below the fascia . |
| 13 | ‘ She was fine a minute ago . |
| 14 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 15 | It was obvious a storm was coming in . |
| 16 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 17 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 18 | Rudolf Seiters , head of the West German chancellery , who played a big role in the deals to ship more than 14,000 from Warsaw and Prague to the West in special trains , said he was confident a solution will be found for them too . |
| 19 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 20 | At least the Queen was still on the throne and nothing changed there , even though she was long a widow . |
| 21 | Somewhere in the house she was sure a handle was turned quietly , a door was opened and then closed again with care . |
| 22 | There were a number of plastic heads — wig holders — and on each was stuck a label ‘ out to — ’ ( with the name of a well-known hairdresser ) . |
| 23 | Taff was blown to pieces in his trench earlier this evening , probably thinking he was safe a couple of feet or so below ground . |
| 24 | The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before ! |
| 25 | I mean if the room was full a projector and slide show and everything and then usually everybody falls to sleep |
| 26 | And it was bigger and it was shinier and er so she was happy a fortnight later anyway . |
| 27 | Herrick returned to the central desk and was busy a moment at the keyboard , then he returned , a thin film of transparent card held delicately between the fingers of his left hand . |
| 28 | Nora was not nearly so impressed by that sort of thing as her cousin but she admitted to herself that it was unlikely a man from such a background would be deceiving Constance . |
| 29 | ‘ In the undoubted progress realized in the eighteenth century ’ , writes Vilar , ‘ was implicit a relationship between the various regions of the Peninsula quite distinct from that of the siglo de oro . |
| 30 | This book included the 1985/86 season but I did n't buy the updated version which I think was available a year of so back as so much of the information is duplicate . |