Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] was [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 2 | Now that the two main parts had been recast , there really was going to be a lot to do , and the company waved goodbye to their hopes of a cushy fortnight . |
| 3 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 4 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 5 | I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived , he also was found to be too young . |
| 6 | I thought it probably was going to be . |
| 7 | It really was going to be quite a race . |
| 8 | It never was designed to be one . |
| 9 | would try and get a lot more searching questions about how the curriculum was being developed in the school , what exactly was happening , what really was going to be the attitude of the Head to RBL in the future … |