Example sentences of "[prep] [be] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last place he wanted to be was in the car . |
| 2 | That this was not to be was good news indeed . |
| 3 | Then , at that point I decided there must be something else out there , and what it turned out to be was music from other countries . |
| 4 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 5 | The episode had become part of family lore , as well as suggesting that the best place to be was Trazior itself . |
| 6 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 7 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 8 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 9 | Life as she wanted it to be was momentarily embodied by the don who taught her Greek , a brave and learned man who fought the Turks in Modern Greece . |
| 10 | To be was enough . |
| 11 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 12 | Where he wanted to be was right there , but unobserved . |
| 13 | If truth were told , she still did n't care much where she was , she admitted reluctantly , because the one place in the world she longed to be was at Dane 's side , and that was strictly out of bounds . |
| 14 | And one thing Fen had proved himself to be was very human . |
| 15 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |
| 16 | How uncertain the night had turned out to be was summed up by Maher 's equaliser in the 59th minute . |
| 17 | Paul next door left school , you know , he cou all he wanted to be was a mechanic , it 's , it 's all he 's ever been , he 's really good . |
| 18 | No , the way things used to be was working very well thank you . |
| 19 | That was , that was to be was n't it ? |
| 20 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |