Example sentences of "you [was/were] [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | You were telling about that witch story afore , is that something that your father told you ? |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | Everything was family-centred , see , so you were living in little towns , little plantation villages , just like the black folks in the South . |
| 7 | So I said you were getting on okay |
| 8 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure I approve of the way you were looking at that visitor , ’ he went on , bending towards her and speaking quietly . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 14 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 15 | ‘ I think you were looking for these ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 18 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 19 | May I ask who it was you were addressing by that name ? ’ |
| 20 | Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back . |
| 21 | " The man , " Katherine snapped , " what was the man doing while you were chatting to this woman ? " |
| 22 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 23 | Erm , you brought back memories you know , when you were talking about unwanted Christmas guests . |
| 24 | It was very difficult to get these things but of course erm , it did when you were talking about seventy two thousand pound for each bus . |
| 25 | till yeah , crazy , well look at the erm , the price of sugar the other day you were talking about that , what was it , fifty odd P ? |
| 26 | Sorry I thought you were talking about two |
| 27 | One point I 'd just like to add to what David was just saying there was that when you were talking about those orientation problems , when we were making the film of the children at Brickwall , what was brought home to me very strongly was that these sort of problems can arise in mathematics , as well as in reading . |
| 28 | I thought you were talking about this morning . |
| 29 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 30 | How long did she think you were gon na bloody tape like ? |