Example sentences of "you have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been a real sport , mister , standin' up for me like you did , and fetchin' that brute a lovely wallop . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been a real help to me , Carrie . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been a real pal . " |
| 4 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 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 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
| 8 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 9 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 10 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 11 | You 've been a good lodger and paid regular , and I 'm sorry about it ; but there it is , Mr Arkwright . |
| 12 | You 've been a good wife , Elaine . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been a good son to me , ’ the old man said . |
| 14 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 15 | You 've been a good boy ! |
| 16 | You going to tell daddy you 've been a good boy today ? |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ? |
| 20 | Erm so erm you 've been a social worker for how many years ? |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been a big detective lately , have n't you , Auntie Jean ? |
| 22 | You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 23 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 24 | You 've been a socialist all your life and were a former economic adviser to Che Guevara . |
| 25 | You 've been a wonderful sister to me , dearest . |
| 26 | You 've been a bad influence . |
| 27 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 28 | You 've been a lucky boy have n't you ? |
| 29 | You 've been the very opery since we left Kilkeel . ’ |
| 30 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |