Example sentences of "you have been [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As general wisdom , the longer you have been saving towards a personal pension and the bigger the total contributions paid , the larger your pension will stand to be . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 7 | Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . |
| 8 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 9 | If you have been shooting with the help of autofocus , you should have few problems with regard to image sharpness . |