Example sentences of "[ex0] be was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 2 | I mean , there were certainly elements of creativity , I think , there 's was at the beginning , I heard about coal fire stations . |
| 3 | There 's was thousands of cars , cars that were stuck in there . |
| 4 | But there is was some intimation that it would go externally as well . |
| 5 | Any conversation there was was snatched in odd moments of repose . |
| 6 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 7 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 8 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 9 | All there was was the voice , going on like a weapon , confusing and tormenting . |
| 10 | All there was was an awkward clearing of throats and a gazing at shoes . |
| 11 | Such information as there was was typed in a number of different typefaces but all with fading ribbons . |
| 12 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 13 | Erm and I I ca n't help wondering , this is perhaps something that Mr Donson may well want to come back to , erm what Mr Donson 's position would be at subsequent local plan inquiries where local plans were to contain such policies and there was was n't to be a strategic basis er for those policies . |
| 14 | There were n't many items of furniture , and what there was was basic . |
| 15 | Sounded like there was was n't he ? |