Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] you were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'd forgotten that you were going out and I ma I was going to make a chilli . |
| 2 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 3 | I had heard that you were staying at the farm , ’ Claudine stated , condescending to look at Jenna for the first time . |
| 4 | One thing you will have noticed if you were discussing the selection of the pieces of information on the Spanish Civil War is the need to justify your choices or decisions . |
| 5 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 6 | not being taught If you were getting cut out you 'd up |
| 7 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 8 | ‘ We are told that you were chatting to him , amongst others , while you were waiting for a cab . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And yet , we 're told that you were seen around the grounds of Burleigh yesterday evening . ’ |
| 10 | He had dreamed that you were coming . ’ |
| 11 | was standing near the washing machine , , Simon gave him a filthy look , I said look I apologize for I 'd completely forgot that you were coming to collect he said I know I can see that , he had n't really what with the kids all running around and , so quickly got them and er , I thought he got , did you bring your cheque round ? |
| 12 | Mm yeah Brian 's argument to that is that er if you 've got if you were hit in the back |
| 13 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 14 | I would have thought when you were talking |
| 15 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 16 | And he was retired when you were born ? |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd have known if I was involved with someone else , the same way I 'd have known if you were making love to another woman during the week . ’ |
| 18 | Your pension will automatically be permanently increased if you were getting invalidity allowance with invalidity benefit within eight weeks before reaching retirement age . |
| 19 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 20 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 21 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 22 | You might also be unlucky if you put a foot through the bedroom ceiling while repairing the inside of the roof ; but you should be covered if you were insulating the loft . |
| 23 | ‘ … and you kept your mouth shut but you were beaten up and threatened with worse . |