Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 2 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 3 | Particularly since you were wearing it in my honour . ’ |
| 4 | I thought you meant you were moving it from there . |
| 5 | If you were to define it in your mind as — " bottom of wings on top of bar " — you would be more likely to recognise that the actual attitude was , or was not , accurate . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 7 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 8 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 9 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 10 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 11 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 12 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 13 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 14 | okay , explain it to me in terms of , try and ex say if you were explaining it to someone who sort of was n't very technical . |
| 15 | try to paraphrase it as though you were explaining it to someone who does n't understand quite as much as you . |
| 16 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 17 | that 's what I mean , as you were putting it in it , it shot out did n't it ? |
| 18 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 19 | And when you were carrying it on your back into the sheds for the cattle , the juice would be would be soaking through the bags . |
| 20 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 21 | You were doing it to me . |
| 22 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 23 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 24 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
| 25 | I did n't look at it when you were showing it to her . ’ |
| 26 | No you we , you was relating it to power in this country to any country and saying |