Example sentences of "you have been [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 2 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 3 | All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time . ’ |
| 5 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 6 | You 've been watching the Americans , they , cos the Americans , why do American police officers carry guns ? |
| 7 | I do n't wish to hear from them on my return that you 've been airing the kind of sentiments I heard from you today . " |
| 8 | You 've been breaking the law for the last ha mile and a half . |
| 9 | . You 've been using a brush instead of a spatula for spreading glue . |
| 10 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |
| 11 | You 've been reading the programme as well . |
| 12 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 13 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’ |
| 15 | When you 've been driving a car , and hirpling about on motorbikes using L plates , as aged car users are allowed to with anything under 125cc or possessing a sidecar , you think you know it all . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been overdoing the yoghurt and grapefruit , ’ said Alex . |
| 17 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 19 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie . |
| 21 | Good , good getting hard this is n't it when you 've been having a holiday and you thought you were gon na have a nice play and we 're doing all this hard work . |
| 22 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been talking a lot , ’ she said aggressively . |
| 24 | Well you , you 've been doing a lot just recently , the last few days |
| 25 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been making a meal of me with your eyes all evening ! ’ |
| 29 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
| 30 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |