Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes there are I was seventeen on that . |
| 2 | Erm yes there er , there are I was talking to er tt do you know June ? |
| 3 | And er another thing erm we are I was n't . |
| 4 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |
| 5 | Yeah that 's exactly the same as what you 're I was trying to do before so it 'd be the equivalent of that . |
| 6 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 7 | Erm pretty little thing , the er boxes are very standard er in design , they 're they were varying in size , but erm the er sort of double hipped roof , the finials erm the angled corners , of the windows erm the er er the rails erm and the er sort of platform there , er very very standard er all over the place . |
| 8 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 9 | If you spotted that the word after the colon was PANAMA , the chances are you were soon able to supply the other missing consonants . |
| 10 | They were on the till when I was up there this morning and I said you are you were working there |
| 11 | Are you were n't throw over there , in the corner there . |
| 12 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 13 | But there you are we were n't the only ones , there was lots of people just the same . |
| 14 | and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see . |
| 15 | I 'm I 'm I was gon na come to , Andrew 's made an offer but |
| 16 | well I 'm trying to sort the wires out , I 'm I was that short of time , I had to cut some more lines up . |
| 17 | But I I 'm I was rather disappointed that nothing had happened . |
| 18 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 19 | I 'd and the words would be I was bored and that 's Cherub saying it , and he said that |
| 20 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 21 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 22 | She had told Dr. Saxby , and he 'd said he 'd mention it to Dr. Briant ; it could be she was having a bit too high a dose of the red capsules . |
| 23 | ‘ You assumed I 'd be disgusted , and when I pretended to be you were thrilled . ’ |
| 24 | I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week . |
| 25 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 26 | It could be they were foreigners . |
| 27 | Whoever the child-murdering Mingrelians might be they were certainly a long way away . |
| 28 | So in other words they were just like any other sibling , just happens to be they were erm conceived at the same time and er developed in the womb together . |
| 29 | the landlords in Saigon are if you like more commercial , more capitalist , it might be they were better organized than landlords in the north . |
| 30 | Must be they were all the same |