Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] your [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 2 | While you were wasting in your sick-bed , it was me who had to make all the decisions . |
| 3 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 4 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 5 | So if you were looking after your horse say , you do n't want no holidays . |
| 6 | IF YOU WERE living in your accommodation before 15th January 1989 then this is how the Housing Act 1988 will affect YOU : |
| 7 | ‘ The three men were shot with your gun . |
| 8 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 9 | She said to Maurin : ‘ I never knew how you and Joseph decided which pictures went to the States and which were sold through your gallery . |
| 10 | On Saturday i arrived — you were waiting for your friend — yes — waiting , waiting — friend came — you walked to deaf club — sitting in deaf club — waiting … |
| 11 | You certainly knew what they thought about the way you were going about your job as Chief Constable . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you were going with your mother to see Mr Penver this morning ? ’ |
| 13 | Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity . |
| 14 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 15 | It makes no difference , in fact , whether you recall them or not , since they were invented for your benefit , and the benefit of the rival company to whom you passed those confidential details yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | It said : ‘ We were partying with your son on May 26 and this is the last time we could establish that he was alive . |
| 17 | ‘ We were asking about your sister 's position at Yeo Davis . |
| 18 | If you were put on the rack , you were pinned with your back to the buttress — two boys , one on each side took your arms , put one foot up on the edge of the buttress and pulled — it was painful . |
| 19 | ‘ We were talking about your grandmother , ’ she said coldly . |
| 20 | We were talking about your career , in which I am taking a fatherly interest . |
| 21 | We were talking about your project . ’ |
| 22 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
| 23 | Callahan said to Chang : ‘ Yesterday you were talking about your shaper like he was your priest , as if you were having communion together . |
| 24 | ‘ We were talking of your mother 's health . ’ |
| 25 | No , yes you do , do n't lie , I heard you yesterday morning , twelve thirty , you were talking to your assistant in the , about you put the body in my wardrobe said Jane , okay I know something , in fact I know a lot more than all of you . |
| 26 | Now write your ghost story and remember to include all the improvements you thought of when you were talking to your partner . |
| 27 | ‘ You were talking in your sleep , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Whereas the three unbreakable makes of 1930 were distributed by record shops in the usual way , you ordered your Durium records from your newsagent , so a pair of new hits were delivered through your letterbox once a week , like magazines ( you could also buy them over the counter , of course ) . |
| 29 | You were sitting in your seat , pressed back by the acceleration , and you saw the light beams curve . |
| 30 | Right , well , the Principle says that if you were sitting in your seat pressed back by gravity — because you were on the launch pad with the nose cone pointing upwards — the same thing would happen . |