Example sentences of "[vb mod] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 Must was the word and Erika left the music room , Frau Fegel taking her place ; the sound of the music followed Erika as she went down the corridor to the gym .
2 As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare .
3 I thought the long fingering of man should was a lovely expression
4 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 .
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 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 .
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 ?
10 If so , could was that price , sorry the cost of two pound , include their meal ?
11 Those who said they would were unmarried or widowers and probably found the combination of housework , farmwork and off-farm work too demanding .
12 I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band .
13 Would Was there people who would abuse
14 Would was it er
15 In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
16 I can was my hair
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