Example sentences of "you [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 2 | You mean we were the eldest for five years there |
| 3 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 4 | ‘ The beast was terrifying at first but after a while you realised he was a big softie underneath . |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you think they were a peculiar family ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you think it was a complete surprise ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think it was a happy marriage-at first , I mean ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But surely — well , do n't you think it was a big plane ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think it was a sick book ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't you know I was a proper professional teacher ? |
| 11 | You say it was a difficult piece for the orchestra , but the Philharmonia was full of very gifted players . |
| 12 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 13 | To come back to Jonathan for a moment , you say he was a great liberal , he was an admirer of Lloyd George ? |
| 14 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 15 | Well I presume it 's something like that , do you remember it was an absolute dead loss when we went before erm and we did tell them so . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , ’ Polly tried desperately , ‘ I admit I was wrong to let you believe I was an experienced sailor . |
| 17 | ‘ And how long have you thought you were a beached whale , Mr Thompson ? ’ |
| 18 | And as you remember I was a silly young twenty . |
| 19 | If you remember it was a blustery day , and you know how easily I take cold . ’ |
| 20 | You know he was an outdoor man . |
| 21 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 22 | And it was a you know it was a great happiness and release to shed a million other activities and flying in all directions thinking the acting was n't enough and I was n't enough for acting . |
| 23 | You know it was a real effort for me to remember all those things . |
| 24 | and and yet you know it was a sunny day . |
| 25 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 26 | Erm you yeah you did actually you were good and it was a nice pace you know it was a relaxed , you know |
| 27 | And erm you know it was a a bad time really b you know it was the thirties I mean people say it 's bad now but er I do n't think it 's it 's as bad now as it was then . |
| 28 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 29 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 30 | You had to watch but if people came to your door in a in a state that er you knew it was a genuine case , you would probably help them out you know . |