Example sentences of "what a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped digging and looked at him ; what an engaging idea , what a fascinating thought ! |
| 2 | ‘ What a gloomy Huddle of eccentric Actions , and dim-discovered motives ! ’ |
| 3 | What a mouth-watering prospect it is to see Will Carling and Simon Halliday facing Jeremy Guscott and the emerging Phil de Glanville . |
| 4 | But how many people even knew what a cellular phone was seven years ago . |
| 5 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |
| 6 | I thought what a dull place it must be . |
| 7 | ‘ What a blinding man , and I 'm so very pleased that Michael is seeming to make an amazing recovery . |
| 8 | Oh what a desperate state of affairs . |
| 9 | As we have often said , running trains or restoring locomotives is well beyond what a small society like ours could hope to achieve , but there are several ideas I would like to explore that might be realistic . |
| 10 | We are also trying to be sensible about what a small society can do . |
| 11 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 12 | Recently produced figures on British Urban Development Corporation expenditure highlight precisely what a small fraction of budgets are currently spent on community projects as opposed to economic initiatives . |
| 13 | Crossing for the last time that stretch of dusty plain which lay between Krishnapur and the railhead , the Collector experienced more strongly than ever before the vastness of India ; he realized then , because of the widening perspective , what a small affair the siege of Krishnapur had been , how unimportant , how devoid of significance . |
| 14 | ‘ What a small world ! |
| 15 | It 's demoralizing to see what a small area the Universal Church commands . |
| 16 | This is what a small thing , cooking a few Indian dishes in a Willesden school , led to . |
| 17 | What a long weekend for two ? |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’ |
| 19 | What a long way we have suddenly moved from the point argued in Chapter Five , that in dramatic playing the participant is adopting a function . |
| 20 | Mrs Singh remarked what a long way it seemed . |
| 21 | And I say to myself , what a long way they 've got to go . |
| 22 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 23 | What a long bit of New York , I thought . |
| 24 | Oh , what a long day . |
| 25 | Maguire will surely be champion jockey in due course but appreciates what a long haul he has ahead of him this season . |
| 26 | What a long shadow he cast , reaching out to her even here ! |
| 27 | And what a long time it took for a tradesman to recover what he was owed ! |
| 28 | Erm so that shows what a long time ago it was . |
| 29 | What a long time ago that seemed now , and how sure she had been that he would not be able to disrupt her feelings . |
| 30 | So what a long time it is since you came , I 've tossed it in the drawer . |