Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] [adj] " 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 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 3 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know , ’ he asked , ‘ when you were improvising last night , a cat sat on your lap for a while ? ’ |
| 5 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 6 | Well if you d yeah if you were buying , I was gon na say if you were buying cheap you should n't buy cheap coke , it 's alright to buy cheap lemonade but not coke . |
| 7 | you were buying seventy off them or something ? |
| 8 | ‘ Well , sounds can carry on a quiet evening and you do n't want your father asking why you were acting daft . |
| 9 | He said you were born old , and that you needed to have a wife to soften you up a bit . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you were dropping that ? ’ |
| 11 | You were bouncing last night were n't you ? |
| 12 | So what was happening here you were saving half of it . |
| 13 | That disgusting hood you were wearing slipped , and I got a good look at the back of your head . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's just one last point , ’ said Blanche , ‘ the clothes you were wearing last night when I called round . |
| 15 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 16 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 17 | There was a feeling there had been a time when you needed both , but for the future it would help in general , and offer much better leadership if you were to create one body , and since you 're statutorily obliged to have a J C C , why not make it , actually make it work , so it meets more often , and it actually actively involves erm , er , er , er , at the political level , players at the political level . |
| 18 | So , if you were to create tens of thousands of ready-mades per year , that would become extremely monotonous and irritating . |
| 19 | But you were packed last Friday . |
| 20 | At parties occasionally we will recall the full horror of the event in one of those conversations which goes something like : ‘ You were delayed six hours and then had to be diverted to a branch line 50 miles out of your way on a train that had no heating and no buffet . |
| 21 | You were seen one afternoon this week and I 've made inquiries . ’ |
| 22 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 23 | Perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die . |
| 24 | You were telling that Judy , Julie . |
| 25 | You had reached the stage where you could er you could sleep out er and you did n't er er you did n't have a soft bed if er you were you were living rough . |
| 26 | So in fact , you were supporting both of you ? |
| 27 | And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 28 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 29 | I thought you were getting pissed down Hertford today . |
| 30 | Would you stay there when you were getting attacked night after night ? ’ |