Example sentences of "[was/were] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , course a bit later we all went off to bed and er well I , the next thing I remember were was er me father coming grabbing out to me and me brother , and chucking us more or less out of ou get off downstairs and get under the table ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Just how lucky we were was further highlighted when we learnt that Ricci 's normal teaching rates are £250 for 1 hour . |
| 4 | The trouble with being what you were was that although your judgement was impeccable , the rest of the world just did n't always know it . |
| 5 | I bet they were was bloody . |
| 6 | one thing and another like , he were was one of the |
| 7 | It was very nice where we were was n't it ? |
| 8 | And we just happened to see it as were was coming back from Thurmaston we popped in and sa granddad got a |
| 9 | But the reason as it were was to address some of the issues er that Professor Lock has raised . |
| 10 | And another way of showing how wealthy you were was to keep up with the fashion ‘ look , I can afford to wear this year 's dress , I 'm not wearing last year 's or the year before 's ’ . |
| 11 | Any conversation there was was snatched in odd moments of repose . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone who does n't believe the White House was was deeply involved … does n't understand the magnitude of the President 's obsession with Noriega or the way Washington works in these areas , ’ said Larry Birns , director of the respected liberal think-tank , the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 14 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 15 | During the remainder of the century no improvement was was registered . |
| 16 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 17 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 20 | ‘ She was was bright , humorous , witty , a lovely person , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 21 | It was was still smouldering last night , more than 48 hour later . |
| 22 | He said he was was sexually assaulted near Army barracks by troops he met outside a chip shop in Aldershot , Hants after attending a Remembrance Day parade on Saturday morning . |
| 23 | But for his pains he was was given a private roasting by a TCCB official . |
| 24 | DAVID WAS WAS ( NOT WAS ) |
| 25 | All punk was was a few inky columns in the music press at first . |
| 26 | ‘ Income ’ for the purpose of this figure was was calculated as the sum of the net ( after tax ) incomes from all sources for all the members of the household . |
| 27 | He was was bent in fact on what there was to be done in the village and in the town : did n't stop to cough . |
| 28 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 29 | Apart from worry about the safety of their nearest and dearest , what concerned them most was was that with the main breadwinner away , children still had to be fed and clothed and household expenses met . |
| 30 | Well not necessarily , I mean , unless the monarch was was was er , was part of the constitutional set up . |