Example sentences of "you were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ — but then , while I was merely trying to relieve your pain , you were issuing the blatant invitation — ’ |
| 2 | You were monitoring the progress of your journey . |
| 3 | If you were to examine the work you may not find any faults , or perhaps just a few minor ones which ‘ do n't really matter ’ . |
| 4 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 5 | My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it . |
| 6 | Several reporters chuckled , one of them shouting , ‘ Did n't know you were editing the women 's page , Charlie . ’ |
| 7 | What type of service would you prefer if you were buying the following : |
| 8 | Well I suppose you would if you were buying the goods on credit but normally , for an everyday transaction buying some food for example , you would n't normally sign a legal document . |
| 9 | As for large exhibitions like the 1938 Empire Exhibition , I have no specific information about these , although if you were to visit the Library I am sure that use of our collections would enable you to document the history of such exhibitions . |
| 10 | I would think if you were felt the area of the houses on that side , the area of the houses on the Thorny side you would think that one 's |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm ten , and so are you , ’ replied Mary , forgetting to be careful , ‘ because when you were born the garden door was locked and the key was buried . |
| 12 | You might have to show the inspector the stamp to show that you were wearing the correct trousers — every now and then , you had to bring all your uniform in and all your uniform was an awful lot of uniform . |
| 13 | Yes ; and that 's what it was ; a badge of manhood ; because you sensed that before you went into the mine , because you were wearing the moleskin trousers . |
| 14 | ‘ On Friday evening you were passing the Rectory at a quarter to twelve midnight by the chime of the church clock . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know you were bringing the wife , ’ said Jacko . |
| 16 | Did n't realize you were bringing the whole thing . |
| 17 | Bernie went up to the singer after the show and said , we thought you were called The Teenage Rebels , yet you 're not teenagers and you 're certainly not rebellious . |
| 18 | ‘ You were telling the truth ? ’ he demanded . |
| 19 | ‘ So you were telling the truth , ’ Roman said , his eyes going from one to the other . |
| 20 | ‘ That is , of course , if you were telling the truth and Silvia really did say something about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 21 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 22 | ‘ You called him when you were getting the drinks ! ’ |
| 23 | The things that I picked up on was erm when , when you started , I thought that overall I mean you were getting the message across and , and overall that , you know , erm there was a lot of the areas that you tackled very well , and you reverted back to your old self and you did a lot better . |
| 24 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 25 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
| 26 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 27 | When you were getting the message , what did that consist of . |
| 28 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 29 | When , when you were taking the was it better ? |
| 30 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |