Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well on , on Saturday , I might go , but like , Sunday 's a good day and I 'll I 'll were n't gon na do the market , I were n't do that market , and I could go down on Sunday . |
| 2 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 3 | I can was my hair |
| 4 | Everyone who could was playing this confidence trick on his neighbour — a sophisticated pretence that one 's family was , or had been , one of the noblest in the land . |
| 5 | Above the level of the desperately poor , those who could were self-helping to a degree which should have gratified those who for so long preached the doctrine . |
| 6 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |
| 7 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 8 | Those who said they would were unmarried or widowers and probably found the combination of housework , farmwork and off-farm work too demanding . |
| 9 | But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ? |