Example sentences of "you have been [v-ing] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 3 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair . |
| 8 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | you 've been going to the |
| 11 | ‘ I know a lady lawyer who can get you off , even if you 've been going round the shops buying poison , ’ he said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |
| 14 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 15 | So what , can you outline the basic technical problem that you 've been having with the flight control system ? |
| 16 | Cos the various things you 've been saying about the rich peasant economy , I mean |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Opposite adjacent this is what you 've been talking about the a the angle is n't it . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been talking to the girls ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 23 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 29 | Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . |
| 30 | If you have been shooting with the help of autofocus , you should have few problems with regard to image sharpness . |