Example sentences of "you [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you were of the left or of the right , for 40 years , you knew which side you were supposed to be on , and there were few ideological dilemmas . |
| 2 | I just posed the question : ‘ When was the last time you were on a donkey and got sucked off ? ' ’ |
| 3 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 4 | Whatever happened to you , you were on a charge if you were n't at the point that the sergeant expected you . |
| 5 | If you were on a house that was causing problems , you got what was called babysitters , which meant two screws on the house all night . |
| 6 | Mrs Burrows called this afternoon while you were on the shore and said that Harry was most anxious you should take part in some theatricals the young people want to perform at Easter . |
| 7 | You knew he was there , wherever you were on the pitch and you did n't want him coming in behind you trying to get the ball . ’ |
| 8 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 9 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 10 | He said you were at the Tower because of Sir Ralph Whitton 's death . ’ |
| 11 | I wondered whether you were erm I wonder whether you were for the bullet or not ? |
| 12 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 13 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The Colonel said you were over the moon when he broke the news to you . ’ |
| 15 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |
| 16 | Tod : ‘ What would you do if you were in a theatre and you saw flames and smoke ? ’ |
| 17 | So profuse are the flowers , so many the farms and plantations of banana , coconut , fruit and vegetables around the middle of the city that you would sometimes wonder if you were in a park or a great tropical garden . |
| 18 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 19 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 20 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 21 | so it shows that er , you know , the globe is warming up , even in Russia where I went , my mother , where I , where I was staying at er Dunyask , there was five metre snow sometimes in the , it , it came and it just blocked your windows , it blocked your doors and you were inside the house and you could n't get out |