Example sentences of "you were [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you know , ’ he asked , ‘ when you were improvising last night , a cat sat on your lap for a while ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | you were buying seventy off them or something ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , sounds can carry on a quiet evening and you do n't want your father asking why you were acting daft . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you were dropping that ? ’ |
| 7 | You were bouncing last night were n't you ? |
| 8 | So what was happening here you were saving half of it . |
| 9 | That disgusting hood you were wearing slipped , and I got a good look at the back of your head . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's just one last point , ’ said Blanche , ‘ the clothes you were wearing last night when I called round . |
| 11 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die . |
| 15 | You were telling that Judy , Julie . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So in fact , you were supporting both of you ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 20 | I thought you were getting pissed down Hertford today . |
| 21 | Would you stay there when you were getting attacked night after night ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | which is where you were getting lost between your four hundred thousand and your three hundred thousand . |
| 24 | Erm the salary part was good and you , you were getting all the other bits and pieces that went on , you got his basic salary and you started talking about other benefits and you were exploring those when we er , when we came to the , to the end . |
| 25 | You were getting all your orders from them at that time ? |
| 26 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 27 | Fair amount of arguing , I do n't know if that 's part of the ploy with the free kick , just before it came over I think you were getting frustrated that the free kick was n't coming over quick enough , a lot of arms being raised , is that a ploy or was it actually real frustration ? |
| 28 | But I knew you were getting restless . |
| 29 | ‘ I rang while you were getting ready , ’ Tom admitted , ‘ I was lucky . |
| 30 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |