Example sentences of "you [vb past] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 2 | Judge Peter Greenwood said : ‘ The cruelty you showed was without mercy and you can expect little from me . ’ |
| 3 | had erm eggs , butter , tea , everything you could you needed was in there , and tins of all different kind of soup and were apples , oranges , everything was in there , in the parcel . |
| 4 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 5 | Was that the ar was that the area that you felt was of the most of er benefit to you ? |
| 6 | Everyone you knew was at school . |
| 7 | You 've picked up a book — you might even have bought it — that you thought was about cancer , but all you 're getting is an incoherent autobiography about an unknown . |
| 8 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 9 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 10 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 11 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 12 | Where was that bungalow that you said was for sale then ? |
| 13 | It was er , you know , everything you wanted was from the Co-op , you see . |