Example sentences of "you be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were about to leave for the restaurant , a man standing near the bar came up to Kevin and said , ‘ If ye 're wanting a place here , the Half House is on the market . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You been watching the news ? ’ |
| 3 | Have you been buying the whole store ? ’ |
| 4 | Have you been to put a bet on ? |
| 5 | You will not need to take as many steps to conceal this as you would have had you been writing the blueprint book . |
| 6 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 7 | ‘ Have you been swapping the furniture around again ? ’ |
| 8 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 9 | The first question he shot at me after the midday adjournment was , ‘ Mr Kennedy , have you been discussing the case with your counsel during the luncheon break ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Have you been taking a medical history , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ |
| 11 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 12 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 13 | You been burying the people you 've poisoned ? ’ |
| 14 | But the bold announcement " I think that … " seems to imply that you are undergoing a temporary mental disorder and very shortly you will revert to normal . |
| 15 | You have to know where you 're going if you are to plan the best way of getting there ! |
| 16 | ‘ A little bird tells me — oh , St-Jean is full of them — you are dining every night at that great barrack of a house . ’ |
| 17 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 18 | On the occasion of my recalling my promise to eat a copy of NSS if Neil Kinnock were to reach Downing Street , Patrick Phelan writes , wondering with an air of innocence , ‘ Is there perhaps one other thing you are hoping no one will remember you promised ? |
| 19 | If you are teaching a heterogeneous mob of children in an afternoon session with little or no equipment , the advice given is clearly not for you : you are a ‘ sub-teacher ’ , teaching a ‘ sub-class ’ , The official curriculum plan washes its hands of you . |
| 20 | BELOW LEFT There is no need to let your dog off the leash at first when you are teaching the ‘ stay ’ command . |
| 21 | It 's quite legal , but not knowing exactly where you are sending a pup is a disgrace . |
| 22 | If you are sending a personal letter to a person at their place of employment and you wish that person only to open it , the envelope and letter should be marked PERSONAL . |
| 23 | Sign ‘ Yours sincerely ’ if you are sending the letter to a named individual . |
| 24 | You are sending the picture out and are the contact for further information . |
| 25 | Simple : the atomic reaction you expect is n't taking place , the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength . |
| 26 | When you are told to move the lace carriage more than once ( by a succession of straight arrows ) , you are shaping the stitches on the needles to firm the pattern , in the same way that you slip stitches to and fro on knitting needles before ‘ purling ’ back . |
| 27 | It passes under a bridge , on the reverse of which is written the ominous words ‘ YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR ’ . |
| 28 | If you are leaving the area do not forget to pick up any clothes that are at the cleaners , or shoes , clocks , or other items that are away being mended . |
| 29 | However , if you are leaving the house very early or have a lot to do before you leave , even this will not be possible . |
| 30 | ‘ Never forget you are leaving the continent of dreams for the land of memory . |