Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it was a bit but it was alright cos there were n't many people there . |
| 2 | Doctor seen it first , she thought I had pulled a hair and it was kind of septic |
| 3 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 4 | But parents also had a responsibility and it was too easy to direct demanding children towards the TV screen . |
| 5 | I s a cos I bought him a calculator but it was primarily for |
| 6 | ‘ His agent was sent a script and it was turned down . |
| 7 | Diane 37 broke her neck in a fall from a horse and it was feared she might never walk again . |
| 8 | She motioned Jenna to a seat and it was clear that her initial diffidence was now controlled . |
| 9 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 10 | I have also been to a strip show which involved a woman , in a , in a club and it was a very different atmosphere . |
| 11 | Originally , he thought he would become a poet and it was ‘ by accident ’ that he became a doctor . |
| 12 | Someone had left a leather jacket on a fence and it was eleven in the morning . |
| 13 | The 1935 general election was a disappointment and it was a major part of Cripps 's case for the Labour Left that the election due in 1940 would not lead to a Labour victory either . |
| 14 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |
| 16 | If you have , for example , never been a telephone subscriber before ( that is , even if you have had communal use of a telephone but it was not in your name ) you will have to pay a new subscriber charge plus a connection charge . |
| 17 | Once or twice he asked her a question but it was with great effort , in a small closed-up voice , as if his throat were sewn too tight . |
| 18 | It was foolish to cry for a dream but it was always so real , and knowing it was only her imagination did n't make it any less painful . |
| 19 | This phase was to last a year and a half and it was a period of general ineffectuality . |
| 20 | She was not a lesbian and it was Constance 's mind that she wished to possess , not her body . |
| 21 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 22 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 24 | On the other hand in Dodd v Wilson & McWilliam [ 1946 ] 2 All ER 691 , the plaintiff contracted with a veterinary surgeon to inoculate his cattle with a serum and it was held that the surgeon impliedly warranted the vaccine to be fit for the purpose for which it was supplied . |
| 25 | ‘ If he tried to get a laugh and it was n't successful , I could see him bristle , ’ she said . |
| 26 | She said you were interning with a stockbroker and it was a special summer programme , so all the best and all the rest everyone else has already said to you . |
| 27 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 28 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 29 | Recently she broke a leg in a fall and it was still in plaster . |
| 30 | Some cat was climbing through a window and it were n't going . |