Example sentences of "that you were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 2 | When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ? |
| 3 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 4 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 5 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 6 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |