Example sentences of "you [verb] be [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So Lucy what do you think is entering the loneliness ?
2 ‘ Who do you think was wearing a purple knitted hat with a bobble on top ? — Mrs Wilberforce ! ’
3 Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ?
4 Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down .
5 I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you .
6 About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change .
7 and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health .
8 ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time . ’
9 All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’
10 You 've been watching the Americans , they , cos the Americans , why do American police officers carry guns ?
11 And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage .
12 I do n't wish to hear from them on my return that you 've been airing the kind of sentiments I heard from you today . "
13 You 've been breaking the law for the last ha mile and a half .
14 . You 've been using a brush instead of a spatula for spreading glue .
15 Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ?
16 You 've been reading the programme as well .
17 You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here .
18 ‘ No doubt you 've been overseeing the physical takeover of your new business ? ’
19 You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’
20 ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’
21 You 've been cutting the bottom part of the grass ?
22 When you 've been driving a car , and hirpling about on motorbikes using L plates , as aged car users are allowed to with anything under 125cc or possessing a sidecar , you think you know it all .
23 ‘ Perhaps you 've been overdoing the yoghurt and grapefruit , ’ said Alex .
24 The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’
25 ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’
26 For heaven 's sake , you 've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember .
27 ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly .
28 Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday .
29 When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ?
30 You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie .
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