Example sentences of "you were [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £560 if you were hospitalised for a week after being involved in an accident as the NatWest Hospital Income Plan would pay you DOUBLE the normal rate for hospitalisation . |
| 2 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 3 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 4 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 5 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 6 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 7 | I heard you were living with a cabinet member 's daughter and fighting for Gay Rights in Fast Cheam ? ’ |
| 8 | Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish . |
| 9 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 10 | For example , to send data to the communications port ( serial port without the printer filter ) , you can open a file to : COM.0 and PRINT to it just as if you were PRINTing to a file . |
| 11 | Eventually you will reach the point where you will wonder why one thumb appears to be getting tired and will look down to find that you were holding on a lot of stick trim without even being aware of it ! |
| 12 | The other thing is with the competency f if you w if you were looking at a competency chart with a certain member of staff , and identifying that they were incompetent |
| 13 | So you were looking for a psycho . |
| 14 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 15 | After all , you were looking for a language — Marcus , what is it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 17 | No , we why do you think , what we er we er , if if you said if you were looking round a place an , and and a mother said , I 'm surprised that you have n't segregated the men from the women in the dorm . |
| 18 | now let's erm just go on to something perhaps that 's more to the point , you were asked on a number occasions er what information was given and so for and when , er can you see in fact on some of these documents that the brochures are indeed dated ? , just look at er please , you can see that it 's a printed brochure it 's got a number of er additions and then we look at page thirty seven boldly state you have that as twenty sixth March eighty five , do n't you ? |
| 19 | If you were to die as a result of an accident the Plan would pay out up to £40,000 to your estate . |
| 20 | ‘ Honestly , Mil , ’ said Enid gently , ‘ I know it must have been awful when you were turned into a frog , what with the narrow squeak in the potion lab and everything , but do n't you think perhaps you 're getting a little obsessed with frogs and ponds ? |
| 21 | It 's just possible that when the two of you were hunting for a means of rescuing the marchioness she could have pulled herself out and reached firm ground . " |
| 22 | At 11 years old it was magical to be making films — you were treated like a star , and I was very proud of myself . |
| 23 | It 's was like you were writing on a writing pad . |
| 24 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 25 | It 's like you were speaking to a foreigner you know a French person or something . |
| 26 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 27 | I also heard that you were selling to a surgeon from the hospital . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps you were brought by a crane and not a stork ? ’ |
| 29 | It was fascinating to hear hir talk ; pretending first one minute you were talking to a girl , and then the next , a boy . |
| 30 | okay , okay So supposing , supposing I did an interview with you , the , the idea about the pub talk is I 'm trying to get you to use the language as if you were talking to a mate . |