Example sentences of "you have be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 3 | You can expect ructions at home if you have been taking a partner for granted recently . |
| 4 | You seem as if you have been taking the walk in the rain . |
| 5 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 8 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 9 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 10 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
| 11 | I am therefore pleased to advise you that you have been given the contract for the delivery of 40 ZX Computex reader printers at £75 per drop , making a total charge of £3000 . |
| 12 | It 's really a record simply that you have been given the authority . |
| 13 | Even if you have been made the target of naked literary abuse , it will make satisfying reading when you play your first sell-out show at Wembley ! |
| 14 | Except that — I gather — you have been renewing the acquaintanceship recently . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you have been using a code driven system then it 's likely that you can drive alternative systems directly ; GO Graphics ' Deskset talks to Compugraphic systems , for example . |
| 17 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 18 | If you have been following the series , the starred items will already be part of your components kit so check before ordering . |
| 19 | ‘ I said to him ‘ Is n't that because you have been labelled a gangster who fights , and is a total embarrassment . |
| 20 | ‘ You have been doing a job . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is possible that your local authority may ask you to audition for them after you have been offered a place . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 25 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 26 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 27 | Fael-Inis said , ‘ You have been sleeping the sleep of the soulless , sir , ’ and Calatin turned a look of great astonishment on him . |
| 28 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 29 | Why is it that when you have been guarding a place as the players loom into view , Luciano Pavarotti comes and stands in front of you ? |
| 30 | If you have been awarded a grant or scholarship , send a copy of the letter of the award , or arrange for the body providing the award to write to the University giving details . |