Example sentences of "[adv] you [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that basically you were a pop singer , basically . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought perhaps you were a relation ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |
| 4 | So you were a sort of Assistant Manageress ? |
| 5 | Yes so you were a scullery maid were you ? |
| 6 | Presumably you were the cause of their separation . |
| 7 | Yeah tell me the sequence of your jobs then , you started off you were a messenger at Helliwells and then what did you do ? |
| 8 | People would have found out you were a thief and a rapist who 'd let a woman and child be butchered in cold blood . |
| 9 | Only two months ago you were a schoolgirl , and now … ! ’ |
| 10 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 11 | First you were a little girl and then you were a teenager with long silvery-fair hair and long , slender legs . |
| 12 | ‘ And I know all about you — how your father , while still a boy , was forced by his family into an unhappy marriage with an older woman , and how you were the result of that marriage . |
| 13 | ‘ You remember , Mr Pip , that Christmas Day , when you were a boy ? |
| 14 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 15 | Th th that kind of thing can easily happen , so school now , I E L S E , is represented as the school you went to when you were a kid . |
| 16 | And how many of you have smelt things and you think it turns you back either to when you were a child , maybe new bread , a certain flower , |
| 17 | Again taking you back to when you were a steward , erm what do you recall your relations personally and the relations generally er between the stewards and the full timers , the officials of the union ? |
| 18 | ‘ It was all when you were a baby . ’ |
| 19 | So on one of these , I should n't be looking at that one , that 's what threw me cos first of all I did n't know you had n't got any income and then I turned that over and that was the previous policy where you were a veterinary surgeon with eighteen thousand , I thought I 'm sure that 's not right |
| 20 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 21 | He ignored her underlying anger as he said , ‘ And again you were an angel to make the attempt on behalf of Battleaxe Bertha , who is too damned arrogant to make the effort herself . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what it was all about six years ago , why you were a bundle of nerves every time I came anywhere near you — because you could n't cope with your feelings . |