Example sentences of "[was/were] cos [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 2 | Erm , she asked if we were very keen to involve the school , I said yes we were cos she said nobody really taken a great interest in the Royal Quays not |
| 3 | Wish you were cos you could go in my old man 's place . |
| 4 | Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then . |
| 5 | you were cos I when Les came I thought you were still feeding them |
| 6 | oh they were cos he got a guarantee slip with it |
| 7 | Well he will be he 's gon na be , he is better now than he was cos them antibiotics are working |
| 8 | Cos , I suppose it was cos we were all so |
| 9 | Oh I do n't know when that was cos we |
| 10 | He , he it was cos we had examination er , in the afternoon and he sort of |
| 11 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 12 | Well the reason they caught him was cos they 've got just flashed him through the computers as and find out what anyway , put it down they then turn round say oh well , you know whatever they 're |
| 13 | I know it , I looked in there and that was cos they 've got ta stay here now have n't they ? |
| 14 | this , er in there because I , I hid that because I mean , I do n't know er like if anybody , I mean I only know what it was cos somebody told me |
| 15 | I reckon it was cos he was so dirty and ate so slobbery . |
| 16 | but it was it was cos you had you know , you had to go that week kind of thing . |
| 17 | that was cos you 're used to seeing |
| 18 | Three where there used to be me , or Mary and er May , she was the youngest , she was only a baby May and Miss er May was cos she was the youngest . |
| 19 | And when she come and knocked on the door she was upset more than we was cos she done it did n't |
| 20 | And she said Geoff kept saying to her oh I would n't move from where you are , you know you got your place lovely i if you the reason she moved was cos she wanted Tony to get the breakfast round What was said that 's what Val said . |
| 21 | Presumably this was cos there was a big erm a big surge on to rebuild the |
| 22 | and that , well th well that was cos there used to be all hot cinders you know like coke , red hot coke and they always had clogs then with leather tops . |
| 23 | But he was worried more about the waste then then ours contract That 's what he was cos there was a lot of waste on the old tables , and they make a bit more waste than on these new tables there . |
| 24 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 25 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 26 | The only reason I did n't get rounded up before the game and incarcerated in a Marine barracks was cos I was in a pub in the Hague downing Guinness and cheering on Ireland ( another thankless task ) . |
| 27 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 28 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 29 | because I 'd had medical Yeah it was cos I 'd had all these operations . |
| 30 | to think I wish he 'd come back I get back to how life was cos I would n't touch it with a barge pole . |