Example sentences of "was [be] " in BNC.

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1 Another aspect of this form of cultural nationalism is that it was been strongly supported in the Irish national school system and Northern catholic school system by the clergy and religious orders .
2 So I was Been on the streets now for about eight years .
3 And er and when that was been in the field whatever days , depending on the weather , if you 'd got a good dry summer well you 'd perhaps take it in in after a week , you see ?
4 No it was been here for six weeks and I was just expecting to leave
5 And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had .
6 It was been going for two years .
7 Within the village , them that was been working ion the fishing time , they would have been at what they then on the firms maybe
8 I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and .
9 We 've not had an appointment to go back have we since you 've been home , but I suppose it was been October when we went
10 We hope was are still working with her when she is thirty — if she still wants us then .
11 Now I was at a wedding a little while back and all they were asking me was are you gon na be the next one ?
12 and your instrument panel started showing that the wheels had fallen off and one wheel was on fire first thing we had to think was are the reading correct !
13 Sometimes , like now , she wondered if Francis knew what it was be in love .
14 It was be demonstrating this wholeness that they were able to show that when one side of this whole changes , so will the other .
15 All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be .
16 ‘ It was terrible having to be seen as a human being when all I wanted to do was be a bean . ’
17 And all he had to do was be this other person and convince everybody .
18 Another thing he was not supposed to do was be tattooed .
19 Mike says that filming the hunt was be far the hardest job he has ever done , and he was certainly relieved to see the last of running through the forest during the rainy season .
20 From the room immediately beneath them , somebody began to play the piano , a Chopin nocturne , with heavy emphasis , but the piano was be no means suitable for Chopin and the sound travelled upwards as a hellish tingling of protesting strings .
21 But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last .
22 She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent .
23 This was be done in two stages .
24 Building it was be no easy task but one which was undertaken with great enthusiasm by Employment Training bricklaying trainees Ian Gannon , Mark Pendleton and Neil Gregson .
25 It , you 've , it was be prepared on the same basis as last year , in fact , the other
26 Too late Paige tried to avoid him , but all she managed to do was be off balance as his hands caught her shoulders , and with a muffled yelp she toppled backwards .
27 Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy .
28 ‘ I thought someone was bein' murdered . ’
29 I do n't fink she was bein' 'ard pressed . ’
30 She reckoned I was bein' a bit forward .
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