Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May I was playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool . |
| 2 | On the 19th of May I was underneath the stage in the Globe . |
| 3 | Well As I told you to begin with , he he he he must he was a man was er years ahead of his tim really . |
| 4 | Chairman , er if I might I was going to refer again to the care carefully worded recommendation which does n't actually mention the level of erm it simply mentions erm er a modest extent of under provision because clearly it says elsewhere in the report at two ten that it 's not yet known whether there will be opportunities elsewhere , so that 's a particular shortfall in provision to be made up . |
| 5 | He dared not pull away , even though he did not want her to feel his changing body , but at this point one of her gentle caresses touched the corner of his mouth and before he could stop himself his mouth was on hers , and restrain himself as he might it was a lover 's kiss , not a friend 's . |
| 6 | Saturday night and stayed with his friends like and I , I and I did n't like it , I could I was lying in bed I thought I heard noises and all and I had all the windows |
| 7 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 8 | We just , I mean I just started I 'd I was ironing or something and I turned it over and it so I |
| 9 | Yeah well they sho I said I 'd I was looking through this |
| 10 | My name is as you know and company that found these was which was my Uncle and , well erm , about Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev to lead a Russian political book and I could which was the name of the company today . |
| 11 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 12 | now erm as well as much as she could she was never in the house and the day that he died she did n't get there on time |
| 13 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 14 | My Lord yes , if I could there was a fifth officer that erm had authorised nothing and was n't . |
| 15 | I mean , I 'd there were a lot , were n't there round there ? |
| 16 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |
| 17 | Let us imagine how uninspiring Shakespeare 's Henry V would have been , had he proclaimed that ’ gentlemen of the east Midlands , now-abed shall think themselves accurs 'd they were not here ’ . |
| 18 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 19 | It is doubtful if one should talk of a church-state conflict here , but even if one could it was a battle fought between royal clerks , king 's servants . |
| 20 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 21 | He was later filled with remorse for this , saying ‘ I would I were assured of pardon for that sin , though on that condition that this right hand were cut off . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Bright Star ! — Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art ’ . |
| 23 | You would There was n't a traditional |
| 24 | Except that women were deferential to other speakers they would let they would they were they would allow themselves to be walked over in conversation but at the same time you had this stereotype of women who talked too much . |
| 25 | ‘ Believe me , daughter , I am not mistaken — I would it were so ! ’ |
| 26 | Would it were so . |
| 27 | He would he was i , he always is and I know that . |
| 28 | Anyway they said what else would they like and they had some , a set of luggage , well it 's only this nylon stuff but it was very useful for them to take away with them it did a bit of good the and I , I put in this letter I shall no longer order , I shall what was it ? |
| 29 | On 4 May it was played through an Auxetophone to the diners so they could all hear his words . |
| 30 | By 20 May it was already clear to 5 Corps , after Brig Low 's meeting with Col Ivanovitch , which groups of Yugoslavs it had agreed to hand over to Tito . |