Example sentences of "you have been [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 2 | If you 've been pretty dominant in a company I do n't think you know when that time has actually arrived . |
| 3 | ‘ Meaning that you 've been heavily involved in a world known for its fondness for alcohol and drugs . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think you 've been altogether honest with me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been very unkind to Sarella , ’ began Peter . |
| 6 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 7 | You 've been very helpful to us , Darren . |
| 8 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 9 | You 've been very good to me . |
| 10 | You 've been very good with the children , I would n't deny that . |
| 11 | ‘ When you 've been very independent for a very long time , to depend on somebody else is n't easy , I find . |
| 12 | You 've been very quiet for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been very quiet about this , Dorothy . |
| 14 | And er of course in retirement , it 's unlikely that anybody will be paying higher rate tax , unless you 've been very lucky on your pension provision . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've been too long in the service of the Devil , ’ Corbett joked . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather you 've been fairly stern about the way he prunes his roses . ’ |
| 17 | You 've been so good to me . ’ |
| 18 | But all she said was , ‘ You 've been so nice to me — Oh , you 're so nice . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When you 've been so resentful of what was between us — so ashamed of it ? |
| 20 | Chairman , you 've been so generous in this particular item and I 'll be as quick as I can . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been so kind to poor Katherine and I 'm so grateful to you . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 23 | You 've been so wise about other people 's problems . |
| 24 | So how how does the accommodation erm you 've been in prior to flats , contrast with erm living on the flats ? |
| 25 | The other one is phone Pete up and tell him that you 've been off sick for a week ca n't play football this week . |
| 26 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 27 | And the more you can show you have been closely involved in the battle from an early stage , the more weight you will carry if and when you decide to initiate legal action . |
| 28 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 29 | It is why you have been so successful for us abroad . |
| 30 | You have been so successful as a branch manager that the company has promoted you to the position of regional manager in charge of twenty shops all of whose managers work under the conditions outlined in situation 3 above . |