Example sentences of "[vb past] was [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 2 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 4 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 5 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 6 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 7 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 8 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 9 | Then , gripping her lips firmly together , because whatever else she said was bound to be wrong , Ellie continued to stare at Phena in horror and worry . |
| 10 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 11 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |