Example sentences of "you [vb base] been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 2 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 3 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 4 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 5 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 7 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 8 | Oh you 've been asked after that . |
| 9 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
| 10 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 11 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 12 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 15 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 16 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 18 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 19 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 20 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 21 | The judge added : ‘ You have been convicted of numerous offences in the past . |
| 22 | You have been struck by some particular type of person and have found a plausible set of circumstances in which a person of that type would commit a murder . |
| 23 | Up popped a short replay of the flight , and a message saying : ‘ You have been killed in close combat with the enemy . |
| 24 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 25 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 26 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 27 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 28 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 29 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 30 | Brian , you have been troubled by bad health . |