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Example sentences for "you were"

You were one of those damned cut-throats!

You were struck by a spear and are badly wounded.

How about that ace-in-the-hole, you were telling me about?

You were on your way to El Orobo Rancho, eh?

Listen--you were dining at Carry Fisher's.

And I ain't talking to you as if you were--I presume I know the kind of talk that's expected under those circumstances.

If you hadn't told me you were going in for him seriously--but I'm sure you made that plain enough from the beginning!

If you were a regular motorman, and had been treated as we've been, you wouldn't want any one to come in and take your place, would you?

Don't go shuffling along as if you were dead.

You wouldn't mind it if you were working," she answered.

You were wise in not having me come to look the place over before I engaged.

You were right, and I was wrong, and, as you see, I handsomely acknowledge it.

You were in New York last week, and you never ran up to see us.

Dear Enemy: You were so terribly gruff last night when I tried to thank you for giving my boys such a wonderful day that I didn't have a chance to express half of the appreciation I felt.

I hesitate to recommend myself out and out for the office," he said, "but I believe that if you were to depend upon me for anything that a friend may do, I should not be found wanting.

Others thought them tremendously knowing, and paid enormous prices for them; and indeed, to be able to point to one of Gloriani's figures in a shady corner of your library was tolerable proof that you were not a fool.

I hoped--I really believed--you were not.

I innocently imagined that your eyes declared you were strong.

Nay," said Rowland soberly, "if you were to go to Rome, you should settle down and work.

You were to bring me yours, that you used before you took your degree.

After all, you were on good terms with your husband at that time.

I can talk to you better like this than when you were inside.

I fondly thought at first that you felt as I do about that, as you were so mixed up in Christminster Anglicanism.

I was going to give you a lift, if you were done.

You were only a little girl then, but you knew ever so much more about farm work than poor father.

It seems to bring back feelings you had when you were a baby.

You were good to want to see me before you left.

He quoted to Philip the exquisite epigram: "They told me, Herakleitus, they told me you were dead.

You see, I never had a child of my own, and I've loved you as if you were my son.

If you were in my place would you chuck the whole thing?

I've loved you as if you were my own son.

You were at the station at half-past four," said another boy.

Still I think that if you were to hear my scheme you might take an interest in it.

You did not know the measure you were going to mete me, and therefore did not know the measure that would be returned to you again.

I do not wish to do anything which may touch your credit, and I feel that I should be uncomfortable if you were there, after what has passed.

I was thinking," she answered gravely and quite politely, "that you did not know what you were doing.

You were asked to lecture, you were offered a degree, and some silly woman praised not only your books but your beauty--she said he was what Shelley would have been if Shelley had lived to fifty-five and grown a beard.

You were in love with me all the time, only you didn't know it.

Directly you met an English person, of the middle classes, you were conscious of an indefinable sensation of loathing; directly you saw the brown crescent of houses above Dover, the same thing came over you.

The last time I saw you, you were buying a piano," she continued.

If you were a Socialist," the hotelkeeper would say, "you would understand that the power which really governs the United States today is the Railroad Trust.

Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where would you choose it?

So you were a knave at his service, indeed.

Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller; you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry.

For if you were by my unkindness shaken As I by yours, y'have passed a hell of time, And I a tyrant have no leisure taken To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.

If you were going to Kaintuckee--" I began, and faltered.

Once I retorted, "You were thinking of that Tom McChesney.

And if you were," I answered, "you could not have surprised me more.

As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul.

I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.

The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.

Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
you all; you are; you choose; you come; you could; you intend; you keep; you may depend upon; you must have been; you need; you perceive; you saw; you take; you tell; you was; young artists; young bird; young farmer; young gentleman; young king; young lassie; young leddy; young love; young master; your children; your friend