Example sentences of "you were [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be difficult , thought Henry , when you were living with an obscenely masculine , fat , not particularly talented patriarch like Henry . |
| 2 | You were looking into an open grave . |
| 3 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 4 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 5 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 6 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 7 | It was a place of extreme temperatures : one moment you were shivering in an icy draught from some gap in the outside wall , the next you felt the frightening heat of a furnace 's breath on your face . |
| 8 | Chairman Judith Eyles said : ‘ You were responding to an acute emergency and had made considerable efforts to avoid driving . ’ |
| 9 | * Is your sickness due to an accident which happened while you were working for an employer ? |
| 10 | * Is your sickness due to a prescribed industrial disease caused by conditions at work , while you were working for an employer ? |
| 11 | " I mean , " I went on , " if you were working with an English actor called , I do n't know , Jizz Jenkins or something , you 'd have |
| 12 | But you were working as an orderly ? |
| 13 | You were caught by an old trick — the oldest in the book . |
| 14 | Can I just mention that nobody 's read that but you 'll see the last sentence says that whatever you put on that tape the dictionary keep the copyright you see and that 's all right when you 're on conversations , but if you were to read in an and it was a short story , if that 's you know i if they reserve |