Example sentences of "you were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 2 | I think you were teaching at night school . |
| 3 | She wished that someone would invent a button that you pressed , and shazam ! — you were tucked in bed , washed and with your teeth brushed . |
| 4 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 5 | You were born with hair . |
| 6 | Regarding your beginnings , you were born in battle on August ni eighth , nineteen forty three . |
| 7 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 8 | Until a few weeks ago you were jumping with passion . |
| 9 | You were ripped off man . |
| 10 | But you were living on credit that was like credit to you . |
| 11 | As I was soon to find , he was a man you could like even when you were joined in battle with him . |
| 12 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 13 | ‘ You were complaining at Christmas that your hands were always cold , Daddy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you were thinking about Finn 's hand and that made you think you saw a hand ? ’ |
| 15 | You were saying about the phone , you were , you were thinking about doing whatever |
| 16 | ‘ Thought you were bleeding to death ? |
| 17 | She offered a covenant to the Church if I came back or you were Confirmed in Faith . |
| 18 | Dig out the 10,000 piece jigsaw of The Sky At Night that you were given for Christmas 10 years ago . |
| 19 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 20 | Newcastle , well I put , I thought you were staying to tea so I put six eggs on |
| 21 | ‘ I think she was frightened to ask how long you were staying in case you left , ’ said Lord Grubb , with a lunge of shrewdness . |
| 22 | Because they assume you were writing from knowledge . |
| 23 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 24 | Now can you remember what you were taught at school , the curriculum ? |
| 25 | Here , the term ’ sentence ’ does not mean what you were taught in school . |
| 26 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 27 | If you were admitted to hospital and your employers stopped paying your full salary , you could end up relying on Statutory Sick Pay and trying to manage on £52.10* per week — which may well not be enough to even begin to cover your household overheads . |
| 28 | I was very interested when you were talking about gardening this morning . |
| 29 | You were saying , you were talking about positioning , about . |
| 30 | You were talking about life 's punishments just now , and maybe the fact that love is doomed from the off is one of them . |