Example sentences of "[noun sg] you have been " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Having to tell a teacher you have been naughty at home .
32 It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long .
33 Here is a poll for all you positive-thinking Leeds fans — who is ( from the period you have been White-Watching ) :
34 This is to decide whether you are suitable for the grade and the post you have been allocated .
35 You going to tell daddy you 've been a good boy today ?
36 Come on Rod , give us a smile you have been officially crowned the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside !
37 Come on Rod , give us a smile you have been officially crowned the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside !
38 He 's worked on it every day you 've been gone .
39 Recall praise and criticism you 've been given .
40 ‘ This person you 've been with tonight , or you 're going to … this woman ’
41 The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days .
42 When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you .
43 So you are therefore paralysed and , hopefully , because of the anaesthetic you 've been given in the form of gas , things like er halothane , er enfluorane Come in .
44 Treat yourself to a special evening of entertainment — whether it be hiring a video you 've been meaning to watch , going to the cinema or theatre , or just visiting a friend .
45 I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful .
46 I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful .
47 I refer to your recent application and interview for the above position and regret to inform you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful .
48 [ 5 ] How do the various pictures of God you have been looking at , and also those which you have yourself , compare with the lists in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 which most of the great world religions would agree on ?
49 ‘ Well , surely you did n't think that would take the sting out of the deception you 've been practising ? ’
50 At the rate you 've been goin' on , that might be a bit sooner or a bit later .
51 Sixteen month you 'd been married .
52 Sixteen month you 'd been married .
53 For the last month you have been signed off sick from work , which has meant that your confidence in your ability to cope has further diminished .
54 I 'd love to see the reaction once you finally turn the tables on an oppressive person or group and assert some of the strength and authority you 've been holding back .
55 you ca n't go out with no socks on can you ? , what 's that ? , ee where you getting all this from ? , hang on let's get a tissue , I 'm glad its coming out though because its been up your nose for a week you 've been breathing
56 Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking .
57 As soon as you get the good news you 've been hoping for , accept it .
58 ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ?
59 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
60 See Ephesians 2 : 8–9 ‘ .. by grace you have been saved .. ‘
  Previous page   Next page