Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
2 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
3 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
4 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
5 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
6 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
7 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
8 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
9 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
10 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
11 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
12 | We were following them at a good clip . |
13 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
14 | Cos they were replacing it with a radial , they 're transferred that stock onto the other end product number . |
15 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
16 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
17 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
18 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
19 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
20 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
21 | They were making it from a tin of clams , a tin of sweetcorn , garlic and a carton of double cream . |
22 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
23 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
24 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
25 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |