Example sentences of "[vb past] you be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In your June Doggie Post Bag you mentioned you were unable to trace any animal charity which collected aluminium cans for funds . |
| 2 | ‘ There will be changes in company structure in the autumn ’ , ‘ Yes , Jane mentioned you were feeling a little under par at the meeting ’ , ‘ Watch your back with him ’ and , as told to an actor post-performance in the dressing room by a friend and rival , ‘ What about you , then ? ’ |
| 3 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 4 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 5 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 6 | This depends how involved you are , or likely to become , in motor mechanics . |
| 7 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |
| 8 | ‘ I really believed you was that horrible old man , ’ said Carrie in admiration . |
| 9 | ‘ I believed you were older than you are , perhaps a little bit more experienced , because of your bravery in accepting a lift . |
| 10 | ‘ You believed you were vampires because someone told you that too . ’ |
| 11 | I always believed you were innocent ! ’ |
| 12 | I actually believed you were in love with me , and all you were out for was a good time . ’ |
| 13 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 14 | then adopted you 're wrong they eloquently adopted them as my Lord , erm first of all article eighty five is direct my Lordship has heard all about that , to do that would be rendering excessively difficult the enforcement of the directly effective provision and your Lordship has no jurisdiction to do that |
| 15 | Anyway , the reason I woke you was not just bloody-mindedness . |
| 16 | We slept and when we woke you were here and he had gone . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How composed you are , ’ he drawled . |
| 18 | I could lie , I could bluff , but what I told you is the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ What I just told you is straight reportage . |
| 20 | And all the lies that I told you were to try to escape the lie that was my life . |
| 21 | You could never tell if what people told you was true . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you any info on the subject I told you was top priority ? ’ |
| 23 | It was claustrophobic to feel that the outside world , which reason told you was still there , was in fact disappearing . |
| 24 | ‘ That part of what Bill told you was true . |
| 25 | There were very few people around who seemed to be telling the truth about their past lives , and what they told you was only meant to further their self image . |
| 26 | You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal . |
| 27 | whoever told you was wrong |
| 28 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 29 | Returned to the nothing it seemed you were , |
| 30 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |