Example sentences of "you were the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 2 | Always felt … you were the one , really … |
| 3 | ‘ Well , even if the ship was you — I mean — if you were the ship — it would be absurd , ’ I argued , beginning to feel dizzy . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 6 | ‘ You were the clever one — fixing our car so that it would n't start . ’ |
| 7 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 8 | Judge Rivlin , sentencing Darby , said : ‘ I have no doubt that you were a leading light in the organisation of the first party and that you were the leading light in the second and third parties . ’ |
| 9 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 11 | ‘ You were the one who happily ordered your man to come and trash my workshops , Jahsaxa . |
| 12 | ‘ You were the discreet narrator . ’ |
| 13 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 14 | There was further confusion during which Hegarty told the Unionists , ‘ You were the cause of October Fifth ’ , and Councillor Anderson called the protesters a ‘ rabble ’ . |
| 15 | You were the most perfect , the most beautiful , the best I ever had . |
| 16 | If you were the wife of this man , what would you want ? |
| 17 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 18 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 19 | Suppose you were the manager who had to organise an industry producing furniture . |
| 20 | If you were the mine captain , how would you describe the problems of working the coal from the pit shown in the diagram ? |
| 21 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 22 | A. M. The worst part of the job was chasing fellers off the corners , a crowd of drunks , especially when you were the only policeman . |
| 23 | This was given , then I said ‘ You were the gentleman who was brought in from the ‘ Cock ’ are you not ? ’ |
| 24 | After a game , whether you were the winner or loser , use your Adult to ask yourself ‘ How did it start ? ’ |
| 25 | Anybody would think you were the King . ’ |
| 26 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 27 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 28 | You were the one who braked on Main Street . |
| 29 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 30 | After all , you were the first on the scene , and this is the second time you 've been , well almost , in at the death . |