Example sentences of "it [was/were] worth a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was worth a go . |
| 2 | I can say ‘ It was a failure but it was worth a go ’ . |
| 3 | Yeo Davis seem to have felt , nonetheless , that it was worth a lunch . ’ |
| 4 | Hardly bothering to look at the prized volume , Emily said it was worth a try . |
| 5 | It was worth a try . |
| 6 | That might sound a ludicrous attempt to escape paying for a colour TV licence , but he obviously thought it was worth a try . |
| 7 | I think even Nigel thought he was on dodgy ground here , but it was worth a try . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it was worth a try , so I drove up here , booked myself in at a hotel down the road . |
| 9 | ‘ It was worth a try . ’ |
| 10 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 11 | It was worth a try anyway . |
| 12 | It was worth a try . |
| 13 | It was worth a try . |
| 14 | ‘ It was worth a try . |
| 15 | It was worth a try … |
| 16 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 17 | So it was worth a try , at least . |
| 18 | It was worth a try . |
| 19 | But it was worth a try . |
| 20 | It was worth a try , she thought . |
| 21 | It was worth a try . |
| 22 | It was worth a try . |
| 23 | It was worth a try . |
| 24 | but it was worth a try was n't it ? |
| 25 | Topaz knew she would have to make her confession concerning her lost temper , but it was worth a penance . |
| 26 | It was worth a monastery 's while to gain exemption for its own boats , for instance , and then as now , the great rivers of France lent themselves to bulk traffic . |
| 27 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 28 | He figured it was worth a nickel to call me at the Globe , and he 's not a wasteful man . ’ |
| 29 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 30 | It was worth a lot of money , Albie said . ’ |