Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 2 | After that you know surprises were n't as big and er it just worked out that you know the particular market that we 're into was neglected here and then apparently it was neglected in Australia because we had Maggie you know a number one hit in Australia before we went out . |
| 3 | The only Unionists who conformed to the picture of what the party was supposed to be like were either men outside the mainstream like Milner , or men too junior to have much real influence like Steel-Maitland , Aitken , Amery and Goulding . |
| 4 | right , okay , we 've had the discussion come the debate , I said the er the use of Norfolk who they knew what we were about were only |
| 5 | No I do n't know when they 're making decisions , the deadline for them being in was the end of the financial year , |
| 6 | That was for was n't it ? |
| 7 | all that cork tip was for was to stop it on your lips |
| 8 | My uncle bought one about ten year ago and all there was about was Betamax then . |
| 9 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
| 10 | What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available . |
| 11 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
| 12 | She has some spots on her , also some others she was with were spotted . |
| 13 | If the people she was with were unhappy , that got her down , but you could n't change that by getting new curtains . |
| 14 | And I do n't know , certainly the shift I was with were very loyal , always turned up and you know we ne we never had any problems . |
| 15 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |
| 16 | I thought he was fun but I did n't take much notice especially since this boy I was with was angry . |
| 17 | She was entirely unaware that the man she was with was watching her enchanted face and not the spectacle she was so taken with . |
| 18 | I was signed to RCA at the time , and the music I was into was really hard dance music . |
| 19 | This was in was it ? |
| 20 | The last branch I was in was very small , and I got a lot of feedback from them . |
| 21 | The whole lot was in was it endowment ? |
| 22 | Carry On Camp he was in was n't he ? |
| 23 | She was saying that the shop she was in was selling the turkeys that we got , for three ninety nine I think it was a supermarket or somewhere was selling them |
| 24 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether he 's read the County Farms Estate report , but it was actually option two , was one of the proposals we had to consider , which was to was to dispose of about a third of the estate , reduce it from twelve thousand acres to nine thousand acres , which was actually rejected at erm , the property sub-committee by all parties , including Labour . |
| 26 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 27 | No but she did say ah er the other day when we were up there she said ooh yes the very part of Kent she was at was where that |