Example sentences of "you were [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew you were drifting away from me . |
| 2 | You felt you were drifting out of your seat . |
| 3 | It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore . |
| 4 | ‘ You were shouting rather . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You were gabbling on . |
| 6 | You were gabbling on about lizards and turtles and Australia and whales . |
| 7 | I know you were kicking up a dust last night , the pair of you . |
| 8 | I saw from the papers some time back that you were acting again ; I 've followed every turn of your fortunes , I can tell yer . |
| 9 | Oh right , I 'll and then she 's moaning at him cos she wants to go and post it and you were mucking about with your C D thing or something and you were saying wait for me I 'll do this then I 'll miss the post . |
| 10 | Why not simply admit it , that you were dawdling again . |
| 11 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 12 | " For God 's sake , Maureen , you were yelling yesterday that you could n't be bothered with it . |
| 13 | Does that pert chit you were escorting home satisfy you , Neil ? |
| 14 | I should have thought you were flogging on I says , you skiving sods . |
| 15 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 16 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 17 | When you were hanging over that skip the other evening — ’ he rolled his eyes ‘ — they seemed to go on forever . ’ |
| 18 | You were hanging back , Finlayson . ’ |
| 19 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 20 | Glad you were passing by , |
| 21 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 22 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 23 | Hell , the first time we met you were bringing in some by-hand-of-bearer letter telling us we were trying to depose the monarchy devalue the pound and make the natives play baseball instead of cricket . |
| 24 | er If it 's an emergency case — if you were bringing in a sick relative who you were wishing to have admitted to our accident and emergency department , you can park your car right outside the front door and bring your relative in . |
| 25 | You were jumping up were n't you ? |
| 26 | You were jumping up and down and then you fell off . |
| 27 | And you were jumping around for joy and saying |
| 28 | ‘ Did you tell Billy you were moving out ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's time you were packing up your things . ’ |
| 30 | Can I just ask one thing , a another thing about the time you were living in , erm did you as a woman know anything about contraception ? |