Только правильно. 3 формы глагола be honest

Am/is/are honest
was/were honest
been honest

Modern boxing appeared in England in the 18th centuty. In the 19th century a journalist John Graham Chamber established the first rules "London rules" upon which modern-day boxing is based. It was decided in England in 1882 that using old rules for boxing is very dangerous for athlets' health. That's why athlets stopped boxing without gloves and "Marquess of Queensberry rules" became official. 
There are a lot of super stars in boxing. Muhammad Ali is a real star of American and World boxing. Mike Tyson is an excellent boxer - hard, strong, daring and powerful. Everyone remembers him as a the youngest World Champion. Konstantin Tzu is a shy man from the largest country in the world became an absolute World Champion.
I like watching boxing and I respect this lind of sport, because only morally and physically strong people go into the ring

1. Someone told to me a few months ago that getting a mortgage would be easy. How 
2. wrong they were! When I first went into the bank, I asked if them how much I could 
3. borrow. They refused that to answer ever such a simple question, saying that I had to 
4. actually find a house before they could tell me whether they would have land me the 
5. money or not. I thought this was ridiculous and so told it a white lie, saying that 
6. I had been already found a house. They finally said they would lend me the money, so 
7. that was great. Then the problems started. A few weeks later a friend told me that about 
8. a wonderful flat that was for sale. He suggested to our buying it together because it was 
9. so large and I agreed. When I went back to the bank and said so I was planning to 
10. buy a flat with a friend, the bank manger denied doing that he had ever said the bank 
11. would give me a mortgage and claimed that he has had looked at my finances and knew 
12. I wasn’t earning enough to borrow money. I begged with him to have another look at my 
13. records as I knew he was wrong. Finally, he agreed me to reconsider my case and 
14. eventually sent me a letter which stated that the bank would was quite happy to give me 
15. a mortgage. By then, though, it was said too late as someone else had bought the flat! 

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