Example sentences of "you have been [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Would you have voted in favour of the sale of the house if you 'd been given the chance . |
2 | I thought all treatment was free on the N H S , do I have to pay and they answer no , nor should you have been sent the bill although the hospital was within its rights to make a charge for the emergency treatment fee . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
5 | You 've been watching the Americans , they , cos the Americans , why do American police officers carry guns ? |
6 | 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 . " |
7 | You 've been breaking the law for the last ha mile and a half . |
8 | 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 ? |
9 | You 've been reading the programme as well . |
10 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
11 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
12 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |
13 | You 've been given the battery ? |
14 | Sometimes , the pharmacist may need to ask why you 've been prescribed the medicines just to clear up any confusion . |
15 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been overdoing the yoghurt and grapefruit , ’ said Alex . |
16 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | You had been playing the piano in public in Salzburg since 1918 , when you were barely ten years old , and you went on to play Mozart piano concertos and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in public concerts . |
22 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
23 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
24 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
25 | I am therefore pleased to advise you that you have been given the contract for the delivery of 40 ZX Computex reader printers at £75 per drop , making a total charge of £3000 . |
26 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
27 | It 's really a record simply that you have been given the authority . |
28 | Even if you have been made the target of naked literary abuse , it will make satisfying reading when you play your first sell-out show at Wembley ! |
29 | Except that — I gather — you have been renewing the acquaintanceship recently . ’ |
30 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |