Example sentences of "had [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 2 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 3 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 4 | All she had was a yearning for everything that was out there beyond her knowledge . |
| 5 | Here what we had was a case of the supreme court , well I 'll say more about this later , but the supreme court declaring segregation by race to be unconstitutional and requiring that these decisions be recognized and enforced by relevant authorities . |
| 6 | When he first started , you see , all you had was a fly safe . |
| 7 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 8 | Previously the only vehicle he had was a car llusg — a slide-car , one of the most primitive vehicles used in animal traction . |
| 9 | The last three worked passably ; the March car he had was a fiasco . |
| 10 | Some of the others would have to be rewired ; some would never be rewired again , but all she had was a headache . |