Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law . |
| 2 | And to be nothing was intolerable . |
| 3 | I 'd and the words would be I was bored and that 's Cherub saying it , and he said that |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You assumed I 'd be disgusted , and when I pretended to be you were thrilled . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Upstairs there be there was four rooms upstairs . |
| 11 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |
| 12 | It could be they were foreigners . |
| 13 | Whoever the child-murdering Mingrelians might be they were certainly a long way away . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | the landlords in Saigon are if you like more commercial , more capitalist , it might be they were better organized than landlords in the north . |
| 16 | Must be they were all the same |
| 17 | If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said . |
| 18 | It er We had to be it was a closed shop , that was , and er I er I was the er I was the secretary for er for our Chairman rather for ou our er local local branch , for the Nottingham area branch of er USDOR you see ? |
| 19 | And let it be it was . |
| 20 | The access was never meant to be it was meant to be further in and and we all for well know , the permission was for a drive to come down through the wood , which would have been very attractive and a garage on the end of the property . |
| 21 | Erm so I think it was probably quite well attended though there were a vast number of these green files left at the end so may be it was n't as well attended as I thought it had been . |
| 22 | The burly barman , it might be he was once a footballer : he booted the man up and down and up and down and out into the street . |
| 23 | Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering . |
| 24 | On the facts as he believed them to be he was not dishonest . |
| 25 | A body thought to be hers was found two months ago . |
| 26 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 27 | And their appearance must be what was considered beautiful . |
| 28 | So would it be what was the boat serving Sanday then . |
| 29 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |