Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you personally be more motivated and work more effectively if you were to receive a share of the profit at the year end ? |
| 2 | and you never say anything that I do n't understand , unless you were to use a word like crome . |
| 3 | If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box . |
| 4 | ‘ You were singing a nursery rhyme — about the moon . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , I know you were buying a jumper one Christmas . |
| 6 | If you were buying a house , though , we do a Mortgage Master |
| 7 | And you were wearing a ski-jacket , puffy navy thing . |
| 8 | Yeah , honestly , I would n't put it on , if you were stopping a week . |
| 9 | I thought you were cooking a meal tomorrow ? |
| 10 | It was like you know , you were digging a hole and er it was , it was making it very difficult for me to want to buy you see ? |
| 11 | ‘ Besides , I assumed since you were here in Copenhagen you were seeking a Copenhagener . |
| 12 | Did n't know you were getting a voucher . |
| 13 | You were getting a bit close to my bloody money then ! |
| 14 | Hundred and thirty to a hundred and forty 's the limit of physical pain , you really would scream if you were getting a noise input at that level . |
| 15 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 16 | So I climbed into the rucksack while you were taking a pee back at The Wife 's Legs . |
| 17 | You were holding a banner . ’ |
| 18 | If you were to take a pencil and cross out every verse in the New Testament which refers to the resurrection or to the idea that Jesus Christ is alive , you would not have much of the New Testament left . |
| 19 | Now if you were to take a drive around Williamsburg … ’ |
| 20 | Hence if you were to take a guess at selecting a high-fibre vegetable you might well think of something like celery , which seems to reveal its fibre content unmistakably . |
| 21 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 22 | Bet you wish you were using a Teeger |
| 23 | And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot |
| 24 | job if there 's gon na be an exercise or a they like it to be a real-life practical situation , almost like a simulation of the job rather than something that 's er for example if you were to do a case study , pragmatists would like it be in an insurance-related case study and it could be related to their job very . |
| 25 | Each round was a point and at the end you were given a tenner for each round . |
| 26 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 27 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 28 | Instead you were given a medicine bottle , bought a stick of liquorice , cut this up and stuck it into the bottle . |
| 29 | Can you remember the last time you were given a hospital pass ? |
| 30 | On your table er you were given a copy of the draft , the English draft of the charter er which I 've had a look at , it was given to me |