Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 2 | ‘ There were a couple of stains here he wanted us to get rid of . |
| 3 | There were a couple of diggers far out . |
| 4 | If you were a couple of minutes late , you had to go down and see the superintendent . |
| 5 | But , or because same thing like it were a couple of years ago , with finances . |
| 6 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 7 | There were a number of walkers now , all taking their time and drinking in the view , but the chap at our heels had now resorted to breaking away from his party to try and close the gap so obviously gnawing at his soul . |
| 8 | There were passages to Italy and Greece , various trips to Tunis and Algiers , with calls at a number of smaller North African ports , and there were a number of voyages considerably farther afield to West African ports , mostly small , as far South as the Gulf of Guinea . |
| 9 | Although it was at a high altitude and windswept , she created at Bankshead a garden full of her favourite wild flowers , which were a source of inspiration both for her painting and her writing . |
| 10 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 11 | There were a lot of fights anyway , most of them were over jealousy about friendships , also over tobacco . |
| 12 | There were a lot of holiday-makers currently in Heymouth , as it was an extremely popular resort . |
| 13 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 14 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 15 | There were a lot of people there , from a number of boats . ’ |
| 16 | There were a lot of people there , rich people in their best clothes . |
| 17 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 18 | There were a lot of cars now and a lot of lights in the building . |
| 19 | And then the Stevedores , there were a lot of Stevedores here belonging to Stronsay . |
| 20 | By the time I got to the smithy there were a queue of horses halfway down the street , all waiting to be roughed . |
| 21 | They were a sort of club rather like a football club . |
| 22 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 23 | Warning that he would not be so lenient in the future , Mr Peter said it seemed to him that there was a warning for operators here generally , if they decided to go to a tachograph analysis agent . |
| 24 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
| 25 | So that was a benefit to people outside and people inside the church . |
| 26 | It was a lack of confidence basically . |
| 27 | Rebellion was a mark of achievement more than a sign of weakness . |
| 28 | I thought there was a bit of naughtiness there . |
| 29 | There was a bit of silence then . |
| 30 | Four hasty pints before the pub closed at two saw Charles through lunch , and there was a bit of wine too . |