Example sentences of "[verb] you have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd been married , ’ he said , in a low voice . |
| 2 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 3 | Matt said , ‘ Silas says you 've been busy in the office . ’ |
| 4 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 5 | I hope you have been able to develop and promote your ideas with other interested parties since then , but I share your sense of frustration at the slow progress and limited imagination being displayed . |
| 6 | If you 've got points you 've been unable to answer you 've got to make them part of the report back which wastes yet more valuable practitioner time . ’ |
| 7 | I consider you to have been two-faced and quite deceitful . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can see you 've been busy , and , as I said , I congratulate you . |
| 9 | well I know you 've been good . |
| 10 | Simmone , I suppose , I know you 've been quiet get yourself ! |
| 11 | Do all your friends know you 've been brave ? |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Gran ; you know you 've been bad so often during your life … . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Just I know you 've been busy and enjoying your friends . |
| 14 | There is still no cure for Aids and once you have got it , there is no point in wishing you had been careful . |
| 15 | I suppose you 've been charming that splendid lady Mrs Reynolds . ’ |
| 16 | And he looked , I said well I knew you 'd been ill . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously you 're not — this time — but I still think you 've been involved with Garry in the past . |
| 18 | Erm I think you 've been conscious of that and have made sure the hair has covered the creases up . |
| 19 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if you do n't have a visitor on your roof at this time of year , it probably means you 've been naughty , not nice . ’ |
| 21 | But can you honestly say you 've been cold in this house ? |