Example sentences of "you were [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |
| 2 | Let's say you were buying a particular stock … ’ |
| 3 | You were wearing a blue gaberdine suit and a white blouse with a pussy bow at the neck . ’ |
| 4 | The real reason she 'd wanted to leave was the harsh discovery that when you were nursing a broken heart there was nothing more painful than being surrounded by others who were happily in love . |
| 5 | You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page . |
| 6 | He confirmed this impression by asking in tones rank with disbelief , ‘ You mean to tell me you thought you were pursuing a poor man ? ’ |
| 7 | If you were encountering a tyrannical overlord , what would you do ? |
| 8 | It 's just slightly off er , the track at the moment , if you were writing a living assurance plan for someone , and they 'd already got a Covermaster plan , |
| 9 | Er , if you were writing a written article , then you may well include references , or sources of information that , that help you write that article . |
| 10 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , I think Freud 's view was that er the erm , if it was a really long complicated dream , you were recalling a previous fantasy rather than er necessarily creating from scratch because of this particular stimulus . |
| 12 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 13 | ‘ I came to tell you I 'd quite like us to leave before too long — just in case you were planning a lengthy swim . ’ |
| 14 | I was telling Adrian that , you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends . |
| 15 | You know , especially when perhaps you were having a mixed sort of meeting |
| 16 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 17 | ‘ You did n't know that while you were having a good Christmas , Hester was making arrangements to send him away ? ’ |
| 18 | Harvey said , ‘ You were having a nice chat about Turgenev . |
| 19 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 20 | You were having a bad dream . |
| 21 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 22 | You were making a good point there . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you you were making a big mistake . ’ |
| 24 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 25 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 26 | As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job . |
| 27 | And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ You were marrying a rich old man for his money and rejecting the crippled boy who had been your sweetheart since childhood , and whose engagement ring you wore . |
| 29 | If you were starting a large factory in Northern Ireland , which features would you expect to depend mainly on links with the UK mainland and which would you expect to obtain easily from within Northern Ireland ? |