Example sentences of "you [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah right yes so let me see , you were the one who said that you were getting to the S P S S stage or something were you ? |
| 2 | ‘ When you were complaining about the Police , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Dry off all the bits you were soaking in the soapy water . |
| 4 | ‘ You say you only began to feel funny while you were looking at the eye ? ’ |
| 5 | You already understood the derivation in class , for you were looking at the blackboard and did not obscure your attention by scribbling down everything . |
| 6 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 7 | But there is n't any reason why I suppose if you were looking at the the local authority grant it could n't go into that for advertising . |
| 8 | Having said that when you were looking at the , at the sporting side you er you put in some , some questions about who he was , who he was playing er his sports with , obviously with the idea of , of referrals erm but because in fact I think because you had n't done anything to referrals earlier on , when you brought it up there was an obj er there was an objection from Martin to it . |
| 9 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 10 | You were looking at the lambs . |
| 11 | No you were looking at the Mal Vicinty |
| 12 | When you were looking at the door |
| 13 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 14 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 15 | ‘ You were looking for the creature , ’ the Doctor realized . |
| 16 | You were looking for the ring … |
| 17 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 18 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 19 | I expect you were thinking about the virginal conception of Jesus which is described in the Gospels of Mathew and Luke . |
| 20 | ‘ You were commenting on the degree of my sanity , Inspector . ’ |
| 21 | You had to chase him off from where you were cordoning off the slip . |
| 22 | I had heard that you were staying at the farm , ’ Claudine stated , condescending to look at Jenna for the first time . |
| 23 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 24 | Thing about boats you know you were speaking about the steamer coming back and forth to Wyre , but what kind of a boat service was there local boat service . |
| 25 | And er you were speaking about the gut factory . |
| 26 | When you were speaking of the the hulks Nana , there were five hulks there . |
| 27 | Did n't you notice how deep you were venturing into the countryside when you and your friends arrived at this party ? ’ |
| 28 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 29 | The deputy Labour leader , Margaret Beckett , told Tony Newton , the leader of the Commons , who was standing in for Mr Major at Question Time : ‘ How would you feel if you were serving in the British Army under fire in Bosnia and were handed a P45 ? ’ |
| 30 | And , if you were riding along the cliffs at Kinghorn , how on earth did you see the King 's corpse lying on the rocks below ? ’ |