Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 2 | I know I told you that I was but I was feeling sorry for someone , not Emma or anyone like that . |
| 3 | Some of them stared at me and a woman asked the Feldwebel who I was but there was no sign of hostility . |
| 4 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 5 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 6 | Rather than just muddle on as I was before it was highlighted and said well these need watching . |
| 7 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 8 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 9 | Ca n't remember where I was and I was I ear-holing really , I was listening to a conversation that this woman was having ca n't think where it was dad ! |
| 10 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 11 | I was and I 'm playing football match and there I was absolutely fucked ! |
| 12 | You can tell how close I was and he was facing me . ’ |
| 13 | There I was until I was seventeen , to emerge improbably as an existentialist . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I 'll tell you when I was i whe when I was when I was head man for Sammy I was only getting fifteen quid a week and my , and my house . |
| 16 | Yeah , but I wish it would n't fucking happen when I was when I 'm fucking forty three . |
| 17 | I was because I was all ready for Steven actually . |
| 18 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 19 | I 'm we knew very well she was but there was nothing left for her you know . |
| 20 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 21 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 22 | She was another who was loved because she was as she was . |
| 23 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 24 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 25 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
| 26 | What I attempted to tell you was that there is essentially no region that in respect of any land which lies within the general area of the statutorily approved greenbelt , its mere existence within the greenbelt must be taken to mean that it has a greenbelt function . |
| 27 | And built er well well you was when you was building the hay the harvest You see the sheaves was different you see ? |
| 28 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 29 | Oh yes , yes yes , oh yes , it was just d if you was if you was behind then it was just too bad . |
| 30 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |