Example sentences of "[adv] you [was/were] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you were on holiday . |
| 2 | Obviously you were in hospital for a number of weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ I do , ’ said Finn , recoiling , and Lydia thought that here was another ludicrous irony : that the less you were in love with someone the more you could enchant and ensnare them . |
| 4 | Yes but usually you were off school right from the person died to the to after the funeral . |
| 5 | But really you were in bed . |
| 6 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 7 | Going back to when you were on watch on the dredger over the weekends , did it ever feel lonely ? |
| 8 | Can you remember when you were at school what sort of games you used to play ? |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you learn history when you were at school ? ’ |
| 10 | Erm what How did you used to spend your time When you were at school but in your spare time . |
| 11 | Fred told me you used to have shepherd 's pie three or four times a week when you were in music hall . |
| 12 | It 's like the time when you were in hospital . |
| 13 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 14 | In a class , where you were at school , they told you what to do . |
| 15 | You always knew where you were with wire . |
| 16 | You had to have a reason for going from A to B , or else you were in trouble . |