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(am, is, are) born

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Interviewer: How- are your- where your parents from? Are they from- were they born in Canada or-? Speaker: Yeah, uh-huh. Both my parents are born in Canada however all my aunts and uncles are born in Holland. And my grandparents are from Holland. They are the tall, blonde blue-eyed.
"was/were born"
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Speaker: So she can talk with some people, and they're like "oh does she have an accent, or why's she?" but they understand her. Interviewer: okay okay Speaker: Whereas people who are born deaf, they have a really hard time, 'cause they don't hear the echo, they don't know they're just like "(makes sound)" Interviewer: yes Speaker: and like "well we can train them," and you-know, just like forget it, we 'll just use our hands.
"was/were born"
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Interviewer: Did she travel? Speaker: No. She's- she's born and raised outside of Dallas. And didn't have a- like Susan-Banks on Buffalo- news is born and raised in Buffalo but she doesn't have a Buffalo-accent. You-know, the- the nasily- Interviewer: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
"was/were born"
You know what? My boyfriend's parents live in Three- Valleys, so it 's a fifteen minute walk. They um are both born and raised in this neighbourhood. They still live in the neighbourhood. They're born and raised here.
"was/were born"
ExampleMeaning
So he said, "We narrow things down and then when we've narrowed things down," he said, "we talent-identify. As soon as we recognize a child that 's good," he said, "the best people in sport are born to it with their genes. Otherwise, they can't- they can't do it." Um and he said, "We would then take them to different coaches and different places and we'd take their life over, almost."
"was/were born"
ExampleMeaning
(inc) um, so yeah so he's got tons of buddies and most of them are born and raised here.
"was/were born"
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And parents took a bit more time with parenting. Because I mean mothers have always worked. It's nothing new. I mean if you're born in the wartime, if your father was either over-seas or he was working twelve-hour shifts, because what few men were left had to work and fill in for the men that weren't, so you didn't see your father that much ...
"was/were born"
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Like out of the new volunteers and I think four of us share a birthday. Interviewer: That's ridiculous. Speaker: Or like not share a birthday but like are within like, you-know- Interviewer: A few days. Speaker: We're born within the first like week of February. Um and I know that at least two of the seasoned volunteers do. So like, that's like a quarter of TEACH within a week of like each other.
"was/were born"
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: Were you born ah- where- Speaker: In- Interviewer 1: Were you born? Speaker: In Harris-Township. Interviewer 1: Really? Speaker: You know the farm where the l-- quiltbarn is? Interviewer 1: Yeah. Speaker: That was my dad's farm. Interviewer 2: Aw. Speaker: And that's where whole twelve of us kids are born out there. Interviewer 1: You were born on the farm. Speaker: Yeah, you so- Interviewer 1: You (inc)- Speaker: I learned how to (inc) they didn't go to the hospital.
"was/were born"
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Speaker: These- these facilities are no longer and the- the sadness about small town Ontario is we don't have industry to support jobs. So the young people that are born and grow up here, leave the town. So that talent gets lost. Interviewer: Yeah, the town shrunk so much everybody said. Speaker: There was more people in this area in the ei-- eighteen-hundreds then there was today.
"was/were born"