Example sentences of "you have be very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been very quiet about this , Dorothy . |
| 3 | You 've been very kind . |
| 4 | ‘ When you 've been very independent for a very long time , to depend on somebody else is n't easy , I find . |
| 5 | It was not until they had finished eating and she had suggested having their coffee ‘ in more comfortable seats ’ , as she put it — he was careful to avoid the sofa — that she said , in mock reproach , ‘ You 've been very quiet , Freddie . |
| 6 | You 've been very quiet for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | You 've been very helpful to us , Darren . |
| 8 | You 've been very kind , and I 'm good and dry now , and I 've slept on the boat many 's the time before , and in worse nights than this . |
| 9 | " No , you 've been very kind . " |
| 10 | And you 've been very kindly waiting there , come forward . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been very kind , thank you . |
| 12 | You 've been very good with the children , I would n't deny that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You 've been very good to me . |
| 15 | You 've been very helpful . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been very thorough , tain . |
| 18 | Thank you , Mark , you 've been very kind . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been very thorough , ’ Wickham told him , and regretted that it sounding patronizing . |
| 20 | You 've been very good , and I wish I could explain things , but I must ask you to accept that I ca n't . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been very kind to put up with us all for so long , I 'm most grateful . |
| 23 | I got past the consultant and sent back to my GP and she immediately said , ‘ You 've been very naughty , you 've got to have your breast removed , never mind what you found here and there , I am going to send you back to someone in London who 'll take it off ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been very lucky . |
| 25 | You 've been very , very kind and most reassuring . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been very quick , sir . |
| 27 | Well , it 's just coming up to eleven o'clock , who have n't we heard from , er , right , you 've been very very quiet there . |
| 28 | You 've been very indulgent , Chair . |
| 29 | You 've been very patient Mr . |
| 30 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |