Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 2 | He had just published in the New English Weekly ( 28 November ) a poem called ‘ Lines for an Old Man ’ ( to which he added a couplet when it was included in Collected Poems ) . |
| 3 | ‘ One year , ’ he said , when he was sure of my attention , ‘ the shepherds found a tār when they were crossing the high ridge on their way back from Aula in the spring . |
| 4 | SELECTING jurors is ‘ a lottery within a lottery ’ and can be unfair to the administration of justice , an Old Bailey judge said yesterday , as he fined a man £100 for failing to turn up for jury service on the second day of a trial because it was ‘ not his scene ’ . |
| 5 | I emphasized to the volunteers that this was a trial and they were now a member of my trial ‘ team ’ . |
| 6 | I was the second in command of a submarine before I was twenty-one . |
| 7 | He says he needed a cup of coffee and a sit-down after it was all over . |
| 8 | A large room at its northern end was a kitchen and there was probably a refectory above it , on the first floor . |
| 9 | You were heir to a throne and I was a minor officer from a village you had never heard of . " |
| 10 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 11 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 12 | Was n't there a case when it was right ? |
| 13 | After all , it was a case and he was a policeman . |
| 14 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |
| 15 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 16 | Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . |
| 17 | And then it was erm erm which was er battered about a bit but we were preparing for the , the next move you see . |
| 18 | Yeah it was a bit but it was alright cos there were n't many people there . |
| 19 | Probably supported you for a bit once you were in the water . ’ |
| 20 | we , we went to , we travelled about a bit while we were there went into Holland and er came via through Belgium and Holland just to get there , and look how tidy |
| 21 | The best he could hope for was to see Helen a bit while she was on the rebound … but maybe … |
| 22 | This troubled them a bit because they were impatient to learn . |
| 23 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
| 24 | It was there a bit because I was hiding something from my mother . |
| 25 | I 'm sort of jumping around a bit because there was so much going on . |
| 26 | In each mess the menu was sufficiently wide to make one dither a bit because there were several options that looked appetising . |
| 27 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 28 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 29 | They were getting on a bit when I was born . ’ |
| 30 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |