Example sentences of "[verb] you [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
2 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
3 | ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’ |
4 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
5 | You mean she thinks you 've been spying for me ! |
6 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
7 | Even after what I just learned I could n't believe you 've been lying to me since we met — that I was coming back to ask you — ’ |
8 | ‘ I know you 've been sleeping with my husband . ’ |
9 | Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? * |
10 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
11 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
12 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
13 | Fastext for quick access to teletext and a full function infra-red remote control make this small portable the second set you 've been waiting for ! |
14 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
15 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
16 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
17 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
18 | So what do you , did they , what do you reckon 's gon na happen at this tribunal you 've got to go to ? |
19 | Town should have been two or three up … but Ipswich went back in front thanks to a John Wark penalty justice was done near the end when Town won themselves a penalty … and what do you reckon was going through Paul Bodin 's mind … the man who missed the penalty that could have given wales a world cup place was on the spot again … |
20 | Who do you think is looking after your baby ? |
21 | What do you think is happening to you ? … |
22 | Anyway who who do you think 's gon na stand my pay while I 'm ? |
23 | What do you think 's gon na happen then ? |
24 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |
25 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
26 | Erm well just go to the final question now I mean Erm when th now the flats are emptying out and they 're coming down , erm and what what do you see is gon na be the problem ? |