Example sentences of "was you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had not known who O was you might have thought that Madame was planning a seduction , or wondering whether he was a suitable candidate for a job — her new barman or doorman . |
| 2 | Well erm , she never said nothing , ta ta , and er Doreen never said nothing and Dee Dee never said nothing , I mean all I said to Dee was you might get it tomorrow if Lesley lets her , well Lesley would n't unless she forgot it of course , there 's always that is n't there ? |
| 3 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |
| 4 | Well there was you would er buy your errands and they was marked down in a book at the shop . |
| 5 | Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else |
| 6 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 7 | Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that . |
| 8 | No I mean the fireplace was you 'd get about three chairs round it , it was it was crowded . |
| 9 | Erm , let's say you had a client who knew how much they could afford to spend , so what you were doing then was you 'd tell them how much life cover you could afford . |
| 10 | But , when , when they can but you 've ju i in the Empire if you , if you 've I do n't know actually , i before they before they messed about with all the raised seating and everything , if it had been just left open like the Old Floral Hall , like it was you 'd have got seventeen |
| 11 | Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows . |
| 12 | I forget what it was you used to make old horse rasps into because for |
| 13 | How delighted Herman was you can imagine . |
| 14 | TIME was you could tell one superstar from another . |
| 15 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 16 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 17 | Because it was you could always learn something on a moonlight night . |
| 18 | ‘ But from where I was you could see their legs . ’ |
| 19 | Erm you asked about the cottage and the amounts , yeah there was you could have asked a bit more perhaps about the tax there but otherwise you 're very good . |
| 20 | when you known exact reasons why , but the conclusion was you could n't keep the management charges at a rate of the level of or below inflation |
| 21 | Oh well I was l oh yeah he was you could n't |
| 22 | and there was a hole er on the floor over there with a grating on it that was you could see through to the ground . |