Example sentences of "[conj] you have been [art] " 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 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 5 | ‘ You could hang your torso , seeing that you have been a paramedic . ’ |
| 6 | That 's er , so you 've been a successful propagandist ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 12 | That — and you having been an oarsman , too . |
| 13 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 14 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have got the information for nothing if you had been a little more persuasive , a little more patient . |
| 19 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I did n't really believe it , but business is n't great at the moment , and if you had been the person concerned … ’ |
| 22 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 23 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 24 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 25 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 26 | If you have been a victim of a crime do not assume that it can not happen again . |
| 27 | If you have been the victim of any kind of personal attack , call the police immediately . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 30 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |