MIAMI - Sastre3<br/>Instances of <strong>were</strong>

MIAMI - Sastre3
Instances of were

231	LAN	+< that happened to me when I was about to graduate (.) um we have that class <they weren't> [//] they were not teaching the class doing that (.) semesters .
		thatthat.CONJ.[or].that.DEM.FAR happenedhappen.V.INFIN+AV toto.PREP meme.PRON.OBJ.1S whenwhen.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S waswas.V.13S.PAST aboutabout.PREP toto.PREP graduategraduate.N.SG umum.IM wewe.PRON.SUB.1P havehave.V.1P.PRES thatthat.DEM.FAR classclass.N.SG theythey.PRON.SUB.3P weren'twere.V.3P.PAST+NEG theythey.PRON.SUB.3P werewere.V.3P.PAST notnot.ADV teachingteach.V.PRESPART thethe.DET.DEF classclass.N.SG doingdo.V.PRESPART thatthat.DEM.FAR semesterssemester.N.PL .

359	MAS	puesS ellosS fueronS paraS ayerS aS nosotrosS (.) there were about twenty people there .
		puesthen.CONJ ellosthey.PRON.SUB.M.3P fueronbe.V.3P.PAST parafor.PREP ayeryesterday.ADV ato.PREP nosotroswe.PRON.OBJ.M.1P therethere.ADV werewere.V.2S123P.PAST aboutabout.PREP twentytwenty.NUM peoplepeople.N.SG therethere.ADV .
		so they came to us yesterday, there were about twenty people there.
364	OLI	and who were these people ?
		andand.CONJ whowho.REL werewere.V.2S123P.PAST thesethese.DEM.NEAR.PL peoplepeople.N.SG ?

477	OLI	+< we were laughing about it now in the car .
		wewe.PRON.SUB.1P werewere.V.1P.PAST laughinglaugh.V.PRESPART aboutabout.PREP itit.PRON.SUB.3S nownow.ADV inin.PREP thethe.DET.DEF carcar.N.SG .

491	OLI	that he wasn't aware of all the problems that you were going through +/.
		thatthat.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S wasn'twas.V.3S.PAST+NEG awareaware.ADJ ofof.PREP allall.ADJ thethe.DET.DEF problemsproblem.N.PL thatthat.CONJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP werewere.V.2S123P.PAST goinggo.V.PRESPART throughthrough.PREP .

493	OLI	everything that you were doing he had no idea .
		everythingeverything.PRON thatthat.CONJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP werewere.V.2S123P.PAST doingdo.V.PRESPART hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S hadhad.V.PAST nono.ADV ideaidea.N.SG .

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