Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 2 | See there was a case a little while ago were n't there , about farmer ploughed up a p footpath you used to get on a stile to walk across the field . |
| 3 | Well that was a mystery a little bit initially . |
| 4 | I 've been a soldier myself , I was a soldier a long long time ago and er er training was different in my day to what it is today . |
| 5 | It was a face a kindly youth would gladly help over a stile . |
| 6 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 7 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 8 | to , because , one of the main points about the embarrassing er aspect , mainly boys sniggering and giggling , whatever , maybe some girls do , but it 's mainly er , males , I think a point to be made there is , it is a well known fact that boys took longer to mature emotionally than girls and I think if it was a guy a younger guy , maybe in his late twenties , early thirties teaching it , and if he had the sort of guts to turn round and the bravery to say look son , what is it you 're laughing at , what 's so funny ? |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |