Example sentences of "you have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 2 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 3 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 4 | I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ? |
| 5 | → It seems to me , Dave , that you 've been labouring under a bit of a misapprehension . |
| 6 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 7 | You look as if you 've been bickering with a volcano . ’ |
| 8 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 9 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 12 | Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair . |
| 13 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 15 | If you 've been thinking about a career in hairdressing and need some professional advice without parting with any cash , the new video from Hair by Alan d may be just the answer . |
| 16 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 17 | you 've been going to the |
| 18 | ‘ I know a lady lawyer who can get you off , even if you 've been going round the shops buying poison , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 20 | You 've been behaving like a commodity broker on Black Thursday , have n't you ? |
| 21 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 22 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 23 | You 've been sitting behind a desk for too long . |
| 24 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |
| 26 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been slaving like a scullery maid . ’ |
| 28 | So what , can you outline the basic technical problem that you 've been having with the flight control system ? |
| 29 | Cos the various things you 've been saying about the rich peasant economy , I mean |
| 30 | What 's the going going to be like tonight because all the snow 's disappeared and in fact you 've been running through the snow anyway . |