Example sentences of "was [conj] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had once said to John , you took Comfort as she was or you ignored her , and he enjoyed her enough to put up with her . |
| 2 | One of the never mentioned delights of the silent cinema was that you crunched and sucked to your heart 's content , annoying nobody but the piano player . |
| 3 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 4 | ‘ What was that you were saying about guests of the Government ? ’ he added dryly . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's been one thing understood between us for years and that was that you were to be discreet . |
| 6 | ‘ And the terrifying thing I realised very quickly was that you have to be yourself . |
| 7 | So , of course , what happened was that you had all these wonderful posters about you as you walked in the foyer and as the punters came out drunk , you sold them weekends in Ibiza . |
| 8 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 9 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |
| 10 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 11 | One of the perils of dreaming too much was that you got flashbacks afterwards . |
| 12 | The trouble with this sawing-halfway-through lark was that you had no control over where and when the thing was likely to break . |
| 13 | The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution . |
| 14 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
| 15 | ‘ What was that you were saying yesterday morning when you looked like death warmed up ? ’ he yelled , ‘ never a bloody 'gain , you said Tommy Handley could n't best that for a joke . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The general expectation in the MoD at that time was that you would get another round of discussions with Argentina at a political level , and that the real difficulties were more likely to occur in the summer than at the time they did . ’ |
| 17 | And the beauty of hunting musk was that you did n't even need a gun , ’ He passed the emptied chillim over to Kalchu . |
| 18 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 19 | The reason was that you had little or no awareness of what a bad situation you were in . |
| 20 | What he meant was that you had to cover a lot of ground to find anything newsworthy . |
| 21 | ‘ Dad 's attitude was that you should treat people the way they treat you , and respect their differences . |
| 22 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 23 | Judy Rumbold suggested in the Guardian that one of the reasons for the maleness of your work was that you both had domineering mothers . |
| 24 | However , what offended was that you lumped Ipswich in with Norwich in ‘ ten recent Norwich releases you should own ’ . |
| 25 | My first impression was that you 'd be more at home putting up a brass plate in Harley Street . ’ |
| 26 | Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next . |
| 27 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 28 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
| 29 | ‘ And what was that you said earlier about Bernard . |
| 30 | It was clear the reason he was happy to go on discussing Cecil King with you was that you had taken and shown a genuine interest in his regional tour … |