Example sentences of "you have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future .
2 Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ?
3 Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall .
4 You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’
5 You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered .
6 You 've been going to bed nice and early have n't you ?
7 YOU 'VE been tuning into Lipstick on Your Collar , collecting the K-Tel classics of the Fifties and Sixties , and loved the musical Buddy .
8 ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’
9 Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions .
10 I understand today that you 've been celebrating with tea .
11 You 've been talking about doggy-dos I 'm gon na talk to you about my dog .
12 And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ?
13 Just talk like what you 've been doing at school and things like that .
14 You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability .
15 Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you .
16 The judge : ‘ As well as being rude , you have been drinking during court time . ’
17 When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you .
18 Someone — for example , an elderly person — for whom you have been caring at home and in consequence have been getting income support ( or supplementary benefit in the past )
19 Now let me ask you , a lot of you this , some of you have been coming to Congress year after year , you probably come from branches from five hundred , a thousand , fifteen hundred people , but how many people actually go to the branch meetings to elect you to come to Congress ?
  Next page