Example sentences of "we was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Roundhouse , a Catholic housing estate in Liverpool , a slightly older man remarked to members of a teenage gang ‘ you lot are just like we was . |
| 2 | ‘ We was drinking whisky last night . |
| 3 | We was drinking beer so , of course , Charlie has to make us all feel small by paying for whiskies all round . |
| 4 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 5 | We was like — like inseparable . |
| 6 | She was n't a proper girlfriend or nothing — we was just mates like . |
| 7 | In the ones with both of us , we was laughing like mad . |
| 8 | We was laughing so much we could n't get no sound out . |
| 9 | I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like . |
| 10 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 11 | I du n no what was so funny , but we was killing ourselves . |
| 12 | We was told at school not to do that . |
| 13 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 14 | ‘ 'Course you ca n't remember , you was hardly even born when we was there . |
| 15 | We was married real quick . |
| 16 | Right back where we was . |
| 17 | In fact I 'd say we 're worse off than what we was at the start of it . |
| 18 | Dot said , ‘ We did n't get the flat we was after . |
| 19 | We was pretendin' , that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | We was just passin' the time till the relief came . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The poems we was reading last year , Mr Randolph . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I knew we was onto a good 'un when we comes to Sinkport , but I never guessed as the old scallywag 'imself 'ud be 'ere . |
| 23 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 24 | On Monday we was in Camden and me and someone else did some prick over we smash his face in and cut him up . |
| 25 | Oh how we laughed at Nick Kent , who may well be the greatest rock journalist who ever lived , but he epitomised every cliché in the ‘ Oh yeah man , we was stoned ’ book . |
| 26 | I mean , we 've known each other since we was girl and boy , and we seem to hit it all right , do n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | Honey , when we was happy never wrote me a page |
| 28 | ‘ We was only trying , ’ Paddy said . |
| 29 | ‘ Tae cadge a couple of drinks , ’ Paddy said , ‘ that 's what we was trying . ’ |
| 30 | Aah 've only come this last couple o' years because we was indoors . |