Example sentences of "you were [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to use essential oil neat , that 's the little drops of oil , it 's too strong and it will h Well it wo n't harm you but it wo n't it might set up irritations . |
| 2 | Would you stay there when you were getting attacked night after night ? ’ |
| 3 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 4 | In organising these parties , you were targeting young people , among the most vulnerable in our society ’ . |
| 5 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 6 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 7 | You , you were taught plain sewing and that sort of thing but that was about all . |
| 8 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope you were having nice dreams , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If you were paying full stamps before 1948 , your working life dates from the year you entered ( or re-entered ) the state insurance scheme . |
| 11 | and Jim was lawnmowing and you were doing hard labour with Matt |
| 12 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 13 | Measure for measure , the paper is more expensive than if you were to buy full sheets and cut up the paper yourself , but pochettes are good when you want to try different weights or colours without paying for full sheets . |
| 14 | One minute there you were asking casual questions about arsenic and the next there was your wife throwing up and having her hair fall out . |
| 15 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 16 | If you were claiming dual tax relief with your partner before remortgaging , this limitation may come as a serious financial shock to the system . |
| 17 | This morning you were playing French cricket with my tennis racquet which I have just had restrung . ’ |