Example sentences of "be [pron] [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 There may or may not be something here he wanted to hide .
2 If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart .
3 No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight .
4 So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue .
5 She should she should get sixty three so she 'll get a seventy three today , were it today you got it or Saturday ?
6 she says er oh she says do n't wait in , I says it 's alright do n't wait in , but I said if there 's nobody in I said they do n't get in
7 This is something not everybody did .
8 I was gon na say if you ai n't permanently in employment , you 're a bit silly to take that especially if the er , present climber and there 's one there they offered me said it could be two weeks or it could be two years I do n't know , so I gambler or not , I mean it depends how well you 're you are as well .
9 That 's something else I picked up from watching
10 ‘ There 's something else I wanted to tell you as well , ’ Faye added .
11 So that 's they way I started and then of course , when the war came in nineteen thirty nine is n't it ?
12 I never have it 's mine actually I told them they have to be very careful , I 'm wondering if they put the right size in , excuse me can you go right out the way
13 So that 's it then she said there 'll be nobody come .
14 So that 's it so he did come .
15 I do n't know , depends what you want to do , I can prepare it now actually there 's only Sally left is ? , is it only you left Sal ?
16 Hubert bowed his head and said he was aware of it ; but that there was nothing else he wanted to do .
17 He detested turkey and there was nothing else he fancied apart from the chocolate gâteau .
18 But there was nothing here which rang a bell .
19 There was nothing there she recognized .
20 As he was reading-it out he became aware of a movement at the back of the room .
21 She must tackle him herself , although there was someone else she wanted to see first .
22 ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’
23 However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died .
24 You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you .
25 ‘ There was somebody else who heard him , sir . ’
26 Oh yeah I knew it was you so it did n't make a lot of difference .
27 There was something else I had to say , and it was no good getting wobbly-voiced about it either .
28 That was something else I had learned in Dorothy Ward .
29 Just possible , hut that was something else I had never seen .
30 bring a , I knew there was something else I had to bring fabric .
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