Example sentences of "you be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been since we 've had these new ones ? |
| 2 | He does n't say , ‘ Where have you been and why are you late ? ’ because you 're on your way immediately . |
| 3 | Or have you been and come back again ? ’ |
| 4 | You been and thrown my catalogue out . |
| 5 | A sudden lapsing into silence because the speaker is unable or unwilling to complete the sentence : Had you been there-but what good would that have done ? |
| 6 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 8 | Another very important consideration is how certain you are that you intend to stay in your present home . |
| 9 | Er swearing the papers basically saying who you are that this is the will er that er the person 's died of course er a and that you 're the person entitled to be a . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 11 | There you are that says the end , that means it 's finished . |
| 12 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 13 | I know you are but … ’ |
| 14 | In the end , I 'd say , ‘ Yes , you are but I love you anyway , ' ’ In truth the experience had a dreadful effect on her marriage and on her relationship with her brothers and sisters , who fell out with her . |
| 15 | Fear not , honoured woman , said he ; you are but lately arrived , and they come to bring you a present , which shall help marry your daughters . |
| 16 | Then one day she came on her own and said right out , ‘ You know something , you can be whatever you are but I still like you . ’ |
| 17 | Cut , stay where you are but reframe the shot by zooming out to a wider angle before continuing the recording . |
| 18 | The most appropriate way to reverse the stress cycle depends not only on who you are but on how bad the stress is . |
| 19 | He does n't know who you are but he 'll say he knows you . |
| 20 | And how strange , she thought , that I have come from him , and you are but now going to him , and yet I do not envy even you , the most enviable of women ! |
| 21 | You are but two-thirds of my age . |
| 22 | I know she 's disappointed as you are but may I coming in her place thank Nicholas Hinton and his colleagues for having me at the Barbican at this important annual public meeting . |
| 23 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
| 24 | No but you are but I mean |
| 25 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 26 | Well it 's loud where you are but |
| 27 | I thought , maybe you are but at the same time |
| 28 | ‘ Tell me where you are before your money runs out . ’ |
| 29 | I hope your fiancée finds out what sort of man you are before it 's too late , but she wo n't hear anything from me ! ’ |
| 30 | I agree you are if/when the defence are pushing out trying to catch you offside , but the Oldham defence were nt , and did nt even know he was there . |