Example sentences of "[conj] you have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 2 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 3 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 5 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 6 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 7 | If you have been fiddling with the boot files a lot anyway , you should have no bother with this , and will be able to use the in-built editor to make any changes you want . |
| 8 | If you have been shooting with the help of autofocus , you should have few problems with regard to image sharpness . |
| 9 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 10 | Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . |
| 11 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 12 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 13 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 14 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 15 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |