Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] [pron] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a striker we had during the 80 's sometime — I think it was before we got relegated . |
| 2 | Maman was a word she had to be jogged to utter . |
| 3 | Desiring Vitor was a pitfall which had to be avoided . |
| 4 | erm certainly the message coming back to us when we went out to consultation on this was not absolutely one hundred per cent by everybody in education that this was a service which had to be had to have no cuts whatever . |
| 5 | It was a shot which had to be hit with one hundred percent precision and which will be recalled alongside Sandy Lyle 's approach from the sand to the final green in the 1988 Masters as a shot of genuine class . |
| 6 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 7 | Like many people on both sides of the conflict , de Gaulle recognized that the Second World War was a war which had to be waged with words and images as well as guns and bombs . |
| 8 | But it was a torment which had to be seen and analysed . |
| 9 | The genealogical framework was the narrative , and it was essentially unconnected with any particular time : it was a sequence which had to be in the right order , and it explained how living people and the loyalties which linked them , came to be . |