Example sentences of "you were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you personally be more motivated and work more effectively if you were to receive a share of the profit at the year end ? |
| 2 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 3 | If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box . |
| 4 | and you never say anything that I do n't understand , unless you were to use a word like crome . |
| 5 | ‘ — but then , while I was merely trying to relieve your pain , you were issuing the blatant invitation — ’ |
| 6 | You were monitoring the progress of your journey . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You were singing a nursery rhyme — about the moon . ’ |
| 11 | Several reporters chuckled , one of them shouting , ‘ Did n't know you were editing the women 's page , Charlie . ’ |
| 12 | Let's say you were buying a particular stock … ’ |
| 13 | If you were buying a house , though , we do a Mortgage Master |
| 14 | Yeah , I know you were buying a jumper one Christmas . |
| 15 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |
| 16 | What type of service would you prefer if you were buying the following : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | You were wearing a blue gaberdine suit and a white blouse with a pussy bow at the neck . ’ |
| 22 | And you were wearing a ski-jacket , puffy navy thing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ On Friday evening you were passing the Rectory at a quarter to twelve midnight by the chime of the church clock . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know you were bringing the wife , ’ said Jacko . |
| 27 | Did n't realize you were bringing the whole thing . |
| 28 | The people here thought that if your wrists were n't tennis racket handle-width on your sixth birthday then you were called a ‘ fat ’ and transferred into the ‘ right ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yeah , honestly , I would n't put it on , if you were stopping a week . |