Example sentences of "and what a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liphook entertained third placed Mytchett in their last game of the season , and what a thriller it turned out to be . |
| 2 | Peggy Wood speaks for the Past and Present Team : ‘ No sooner had we packed away the remnants of Past and Present 1991 , than things began to arrive in the cupboard for 1992 – and what a selection of lovely bits and pieces . |
| 3 | and what a function is . |
| 4 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 5 | And what a choice ! |
| 6 | The girls were being taken in at night after we left and what a mess we got in the morning ! |
| 7 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 8 | The Youngest Son waited to greet us , and what a contrast from the last time I saw him . |
| 9 | And what a bore ! |
| 10 | And what a cop winder does . ’ |
| 11 | Only one goal separated the teams , and what a strike it turned out to be . |
| 12 | And what a cost ! |
| 13 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 14 | ‘ The mystery of the coming of a new creature is a great mystery ad incomprehensible , Mrs Virginsky , and what a pity it is that you do n't understand it . ' |
| 15 | And what a pity Meaulnes will never be broadcast . ’ |
| 16 | I suppose Mother had been telling her what a poor parish this is and what a pity Mark had n't taken a more wealthy living . |
| 17 | First Slip , Premus , The Neb , The Toit , Hardd , Tensor — how desperate we found them — and what a sigh of relief when subsequent guidebook editions bounced them upwards : in the case of The Toit to E4 ! |
| 18 | Who kept singing , and what a voice ! |
| 19 | Be that as it may , she eventually worked her way through to a most impressive and distinctive personal singing style ; the various stages of this development can be observed on two excellent LPs : Princess of the Thistle ( 1969 ) , which has useful and perceptive notes by Peter Hall , and What a Voice ( 1985 ) , with sensitive notes by Stephanie Smith-Perrin . |
| 20 | And what a hit the Cup was . |
| 21 | And what a stir it caused , too , ’ she added , quite as though Isabel had not been present . |
| 22 | It huddles round a flint-towered church and sprawls down to the North Sea — and what a wallop the sea makes as it pounds at the shingle . " |
| 23 | Given these definitions we can ask , more specifically , just what motion of a point produces a straight line , and what a circular ; what motion of a straight line produces a square , and what motion of a circle produces a sphere . |
| 24 | And what a panel ! |
| 25 | ‘ And what a responsibility , ’ she said , running her hand over the glove leather seat of the Mercedes . |
| 26 | And what a performance . |
| 27 | Group members may well help each other by pointing out to another where and what a problem might be . |
| 28 | For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds … |
| 29 | There was even a character in Comic Cuts in the 1890s , a youthful prowler named ‘ Area Sneaker , — and what a pseudonym that is to conjure with from this supposedly untroubled late Victorian era — who reflected the fashion . |
| 30 | ‘ Why do I tell you all this , when you yourselves know what poverty is and what starvation is and what a lack of cash is about ? ’ |