Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 2 | You were referring to tw sorry you were referring to twelve hour flows which |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not how much it affected you , it 's the fact that you were affected at all , ’ he said , straightening himself up . |
| 4 | Falsely you were led into This Outside of Rain and Cold and Sleet and Humans and Order , and Yet it Will become Worse ; iv . |
| 5 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 6 | You were born in nineteen twenty . |
| 7 | You were born in different years , no you were n't . |
| 8 | You were born in nineteen-forty . |
| 9 | If you were born before 6 April 1919 and were a married woman when you reached age 60 , having paid full NI contributions while working , you should contact your local Social Security office . |
| 10 | Because when you were trained in those days you only had two children or otherwise you had another nanny if you had more . |
| 11 | You were seen by one of the boarders . ’ |
| 12 | But what I still do n't understand is , if you were schooled on this stuff , how do you know it 's wrong ? |
| 13 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 14 | You were telling about that witch story afore , is that something that your father told you ? |
| 15 | as a project engineer or team member or one of the troops doing the job , if you were presented with that , you could have done what you 'd been asked to do ? |
| 16 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 17 | Everything was family-centred , see , so you were living in little towns , little plantation villages , just like the black folks in the South . |
| 18 | So I said you were getting on okay |
| 19 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 20 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 21 | With slides at £5 each it would seem to be hard to justify buying one 's own film recorder unless you were dealing with confidential material . |
| 22 | You were warned about this when fundholding was first mooted , and again when your obsession with waiting lists surfaced , but no one seems to listen . |
| 23 | In the Royal Academy 's recent Pop Art exhibition , you were represented by eight earlier pictures and a set of your recent Self-Portraits manipulated by the Quantel paintbox . |
| 24 | Okay well I know I know you said that you were looking at one or two other things and quite honestly I would expect you to be . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 26 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 27 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 28 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 29 | ‘ I think you were looking for these ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |