Example sentences of "be [adv] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The girl must be busy ’ , ‘ the maintenance course she had been on was probably gruelling ’ , or ‘ she was still too upset to put pen to paper ’ . |
| 2 | The most scary flight I have ever been on was with Andy . |
| 3 | The best flight I have been on was in the black cessna . |
| 4 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 5 | What she had just been through was insane and illogical , but also unambiguous and actual . |
| 6 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 7 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 8 | Produced by Kenith Trodd , She 's Been Away was a distinctive achievement to match Poliakoff 's and Ashcroft 's Caught On A Train nearly a decade ago . |
| 9 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 10 | The winner of the last edition of Environmental Issues ' competition to spot where they all are now was Clare Stevens . |
| 11 | I tell you a good programme which used to be on was erm oh fucking Auf Wiedersehn Pet . |
| 12 | One which used to be around was alright uncle how you doing . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ One of the reasons I wanted to be here was to copperfasten , I hope , the central role that architecture in general , and especially the architecture of the last 300 years has in our cultural and heritage policy . |
| 14 | Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the Home Secretary was persuaded that anything which might help towards countering the rising prison population by keeping out of prison those who need not be there was worth trying : |
| 16 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 17 | The are n't was okay . |
| 18 | I felt as if a huge gap had appeared in my existence , because one who had always been there was there no longer , and I should never see him again . |
| 19 | When asked how beneficial the training had been there was a somewhat mixed response . |
| 20 | Where the Turk 's Head had once been there was just a piece of waste ground overgrown with weeds and used for dumping rubbish despite the sign that said No Tipping . |
| 21 | Where Johannsen 's shelter had been there was now a smoking crater . |
| 22 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |
| 23 | Never thought about the pit , I 'd been There was no question about that , it was something that was not going to last . |
| 24 | The smaller had legs like long sticks , and where one of the eyes should have been there was nothing — smooth skin without even an indentation . |
| 25 | Where the bend had been there was now nothing but a piled-up , slithering mass of wet glistening rubble . |
| 26 | If there ever had been there was certainly nothing there now . |
| 27 | Where part of the roof and the top of one wall had been there was a jagged , gaping hole . |
| 28 | The hill , or knoll , they were on was almost completely surrounded below by two horns of suburb . |
| 29 | Say there were less was she ? |
| 30 | The house we were in was solid Victorian in style , both inside and out , except that it had a tin roof . |