Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 2 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 3 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 4 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 5 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 11 | And I 've been looking after you since then . |
| 12 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 13 | So I just want to run through very , very quickly some of the things which will sound very familiar , because a lot of the , a lot of the information is very similar to the information we 've been putting before you in terms of the radio and television situations . |
| 14 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 15 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 17 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 18 | ‘ She 's been talking to you about me then ? ’ |
| 19 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |