Example sentences of "you [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We know that , stupid , but where have you been all night ? ’
2 ‘ Where have you been all afternoon then ? ’
3 ‘ Where have you been all day ? ’
4 Have you been that part there ?
5 How many times have you been next door ? "
6 Where 've you been this morning ?
7 Where you been this morning then ?
8 And er we did say that we would consult further about it , and erm you are one constituency , er which certainly you know , er as is your responsibility to think about the worship line of the church .
9 Here you are one time only twenty s twenty per cent savings on a single purchase of Debenhams own brand throughout the store erm Debenhams has bought to blah blah blah outstanding values da da da and to encourage to do your Christmas shopping at Debenhams we 'll making a special offer that you wo n't be able to resist until December the twenty fourth commencing on November you can get an amazing twenty per cent off at any Debenhams own bought range , that means you can shop throughout the store , visit every floor , buy all your gifts under one roof and save twenty per cent providing you do all your shopping in one go to get the benefit of the voucher because the voucher can only be used once from men 's , woman 's fashions , accessory , children 's clothes , furnishings , gifts simply present this voucher and attach simply present the voucher attach and receive the train fare discount , we hope you enjoy your shopping .
10 Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately .
11 If you 're in Error you are one step away from the thumbscrews .
12 ‘ Polly Levington , you are one hell of a woman . ’
13 If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist .
14 You are all woman !
15 You are all mystery .
16 You may well find that you have to use the choke chain more than normal when you are first walking along the street as the dog will be more inclined to pause for scents than before .
17 remember : you can only ask for water if you establish and maintain an overlap before you are two board lengths from the mark .
18 You are that part of me that I cut off , and I never have been and never shall be whole without you . ’
19 Now imagine that you 're not sitting watching in your comfortable stalls seat : you are that character .
20 Do n't worry about the purple prose ( unless you are that way inclined ) , as the programme editors will be amalgamating all the information into one article , which we hope will be of interest to all Society members whether or not they are able to come to the Fairfield Hall .
21 She had tried to explain this fleeting instinctive comprehension to Peter , but he had said , ‘ I think you are confusing faith with emotion , ’ so she had not tried again .
22 Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging .
23 A Victorian poster exhorts visitors ‘ If you are awake move .
24 You are twelve goal in looks , señorita ; what does it matter about zee polo ? ’
25 Although you are changing colour every two rows , usually as long as long as you are changing between just two of your colours , the card is n't marked .
26 Remember , you are practising distance , not power .
27 You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal .
28 ‘ If you are Western European by descent then you are Christian , ’ said Dhani authoritatively .
29 Well there you are eighteen carat gold er bracelet , there you are stone set bangle .
30 ‘ Look , I know it 's a dodgy topic , ’ some one remarks in Amis 's Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , ‘ but you are lower class , are n't you , darling ? ’ ; to which the admirably candid reply is :
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