Example sentences of "you [verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 2 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 3 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 6 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 7 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 10 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 11 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 13 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 14 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 15 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |