Example sentences of "you have [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life .
2 You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish , sentimental way you have been handling it .
3 You have been expecting us . ’
4 I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’
5 You have been feeding it though ?
6 ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault .
7 It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them .
8 You have been taking your medicine ? ’ she asked .
9 I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time .
10 You will have lost your latest changes to the document , but if you have been saving your documents regularly , as you should , this should not be too much of a problem .
11 In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking .
12 You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’
13 I trust that you have been reading my peerless prose this lovely morning . ’
14 To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically .
15 You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years .
16 After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time .
17 Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’
18 While you have been perfecting your French , I have been bettering my English .
19 IF you have been giving you house plants a summer airing in the garden , it is now time to bring them in again .
20 He said , ‘ You have been avoiding me , you know . ’
21 And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’
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