Example sentences of "you [was/were] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you were also a contemporary of a student named Everett who fell to his death from a window in the next quad a few weeks before the car crash . |
| 2 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 3 | If you were just a lodger , coming and going in your own way , I 'd say it was none of my business . ’ |
| 4 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 5 | They 'd arrest you if you gave a false name or something like that or if you were just a beggar . |
| 6 | You were just a baby . |
| 7 | " If you were even a schoolmaster . |
| 8 | ‘ You were quite a time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 10 | — you were always a gentleman while you were at Kirkcaldy and that 's how I 'll always think of you , regardless of where you are in the future . |
| 11 | Perhaps you were always a bit wobbly anyway ! |
| 12 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 13 | You were really a part of her . |
| 14 | You were never a slave in Egypt , but your zeide was . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You were never a member of that stunt team . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 17 | If there 's no one present who 's been designated as minute-taker , then avoid volunteering — especially if you were once a secretary . |
| 18 | If you were once a SuperCalc 4 user you may have noticed the omission of Cell Noter when the product was upgraded . |
| 19 | James you were once a child . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe you were once a director of a small company called Anglam Gateway Ltd ? ’ |
| 21 | You gave out emanations of virtue and vice at once , at school and at home respectively ; you were therefore a deceiver , and so were bad in truth . |
| 22 | For You Were Truly a Man |
| 23 | For you were truly a man . |
| 24 | For you were truly a man . |
| 25 | For you were truly a man . |
| 26 | For you were truly a man . |
| 27 | For you were truly a man . |
| 28 | ‘ You were only a child , my dear , ’ sighed the Earl . |
| 29 | You were only a child then , but now you 're a woman , and this time I 'm going to take what you came here to give me . ’ |
| 30 | Well you were only a child really when you went there |