Example sentences of "[conj] you have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd have known that , would n't you , that you 'd been a twin ? ’ |
| 2 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 3 | Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ? |
| 4 | ‘ You could hang your torso , seeing that you have been a paramedic . ’ |
| 5 | That 's er , so you 've been a successful propagandist ? |
| 6 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 7 | Anyway , muggins here went into his dresing room just before the fight and gushed : ‘ Joe , it 's my first big show , and you 've been a professional in every sense of the word . |
| 8 | If you come out to nothing like I did and you 've been a prostitute and know it 's easy money — well you 're going to go straight to it again . |
| 9 | So , for example , if the flat rate is £200 a year of pension and you have been a member of the scheme for 20 years , your pension will be £4,000 a year . |
| 10 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 11 | That — and you having been an oarsman , too . |
| 12 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 13 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 14 | If you had been a young person at the beginning of this century , you may have been in ‘ in service ’ , working as a maid or servant for a wealthy family . |
| 15 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 16 | And I still feel that you 're to blame for this : if you had been a wife to him he would certainly not have had to seek comfort elsewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ You could have got the information for nothing if you had been a little more persuasive , a little more patient . |
| 18 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 19 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 20 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 21 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 22 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 23 | If you have been a victim of a crime do not assume that it can not happen again . |
| 24 | and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 26 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 27 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
| 28 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 29 | ‘ When you 've been a soldier as long as I have , I tell you , you can smell a parasite from the other side of a black hole ! |
| 30 | I was so proud of you — as proud as though you 'd been a child of mine trying to walk . |