Example sentences of "you were [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you were playing football at all , you were probably the ball . ’ |
| 2 | Because you were also a contemporary of a student named Everett who fell to his death from a window in the next quad a few weeks before the car crash . |
| 3 | You were also an angel at the barbecue . ’ |
| 4 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 5 | If you were just a lodger , coming and going in your own way , I 'd say it was none of my business . ’ |
| 6 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 7 | They 'd arrest you if you gave a false name or something like that or if you were just a beggar . |
| 8 | You were just a baby . |
| 9 | ‘ My brother Charles seemed to naïvely imagine you were just the person to put everything right , ’ she said , picking her words carefully , trying to control the fury chilling her inside . |
| 10 | ‘ Then when I saw you I realised suddenly that you were just the friend who would help to make it all a success . |
| 11 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 12 | " If you were even a schoolmaster . |
| 13 | ‘ So you were here the night he died ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You were quite a time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 16 | — you were always a gentleman while you were at Kirkcaldy and that 's how I 'll always think of you , regardless of where you are in the future . |
| 17 | Perhaps you were always a bit wobbly anyway ! |
| 18 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 19 | You were really a part of her . |
| 20 | You were never a slave in Egypt , but your zeide was . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You were never a member of that stunt team . ’ |
| 22 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 23 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 24 | If there 's no one present who 's been designated as minute-taker , then avoid volunteering — especially if you were once a secretary . |
| 25 | If you were once a SuperCalc 4 user you may have noticed the omission of Cell Noter when the product was upgraded . |
| 26 | James you were once a child . |
| 27 | ‘ I believe you were once a director of a small company called Anglam Gateway Ltd ? ’ |
| 28 | You gave out emanations of virtue and vice at once , at school and at home respectively ; you were therefore a deceiver , and so were bad in truth . |
| 29 | For You Were Truly a Man |
| 30 | For you were truly a man . |