Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 2 | You may have been expecting me , but I sure as hell was n't expecting you ! ’ |
| 3 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 4 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 6 | If time-out did n't work for you , you may have been applying the method incorrectly . |
| 7 | All the caution and tension that you may have been feeling has now flown . |
| 8 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |
| 9 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 10 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 11 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You must have been expecting me . ’ |
| 13 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 14 | You must have been receiving or entitled to income support or supplementary benefit for a continuous period of 26 weeks ( but one break of 14 days or less will not matter ) . |
| 15 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You must have been collecting antiques quite a while . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You must have been living somewhere . ’ |
| 18 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 19 | You must have been imagining things . |
| 20 | You must have been wondering . ’ |
| 21 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 22 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 23 | Doubtless with his tongue in his cheek , Bedford replied : ‘ But Mr. Lampson , you must have been opening the book . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 25 | You must have been dreaming . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You must have been dreaming . ’ |
| 27 | You must have been dreaming . ’ |
| 28 | B You must have been dreaming |
| 29 | I know how you must have been feeling inside . ’ |
| 30 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |