Example sentences of "[verb] you have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eighty-ninth Law of Dybbukry : Never , ever let your subject know you 've been thrown off balance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cavell says you 've been invited to the awards ceremony , and she 's asked the organisers to seat us together . |
| 4 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 5 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 9 | You mean she thinks you 've been spying for me ! |
| 10 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
| 11 | 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 — ’ |
| 12 | The idea is to imagine you have been called to a ‘ convention ’ to set the rules of the constitution and the social and economic structure of society . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you 've been sleeping with my husband . ’ |
| 14 | Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? * |
| 15 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 16 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 21 | ‘ I understand you 've been recommended for business training at our school here . |
| 22 | Sometimes , turning a corner from some leisurely alley , you feel you have been thrust into the coruscating life of a country fair . |
| 23 | When you look at that mausoleum , with its granite monsters biting into the construction , then you feel you have been transported into the present day situation . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe you have been introduced to the Imperial Adjudicator . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
| 27 | The only county-wide survey , the one of importance to you ma'am is contained within the North Yorkshire Conservation Strategy of which I think you 've been referred to already . |
| 28 | ‘ I presume you have been briefed about the Ngune breakout ? ’ |
| 29 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 30 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |