Example sentences of "you have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You 've been watching the Americans , they , cos the Americans , why do American police officers carry guns ? |
| 3 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | You 've been breaking the law for the last ha mile and a half . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | You 've been reading the programme as well . |
| 8 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 9 | ‘ No doubt you 've been overseeing the physical takeover of your new business ? ’ |
| 10 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | You 've been cutting the bottom part of the grass ? |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been overdoing the yoghurt and grapefruit , ’ said Alex . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | For heaven 's sake , you 've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
| 17 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 18 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 19 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 20 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 21 | You had been playing the piano in public in Salzburg since 1918 , when you were barely ten years old , and you went on to play Mozart piano concertos and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies in public concerts . |
| 22 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
| 23 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 24 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 25 | Except that — I gather — you have been renewing the acquaintanceship recently . ’ |
| 26 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
| 27 | If you have been following the series , the starred items will already be part of your components kit so check before ordering . |
| 28 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 29 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 30 | Fael-Inis said , ‘ You have been sleeping the sleep of the soulless , sir , ’ and Calatin turned a look of great astonishment on him . |