Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we pulled in in a car park in Brandon the other week and there in the middle of a car park was this 'orrible nappy . |
| 2 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 3 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 4 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 5 | Maybe , just for once , he 'd understood what a science story was all about ? |
| 6 | A land lease was another kind of commercial favour which recurs , and this too could form a useful and persuasive means of keeping a voter 's loyalty , as in the attempt to augment the Argyll interest in the burgh of Stirling in 1756 by giving a tack of land in Argyllshire to Robert Campbell , a brother of the laird of Barcaldine , who was one of the merchants of the town . |
| 7 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |