Example sentences of "you have been [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 4 | What would you have been doing to what , to comes up with |
| 5 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 6 | ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been seconded to my department . |
| 8 | You 've been lying to me all along . ’ |
| 9 | 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 — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been lying to me and covering up for them all along . |
| 11 | You 've been talking to him , have n't you ? |
| 12 | You 've been talking to her ! |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been talking to someone . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been talking to my wife . |
| 15 | I do n't know what you 've been doing to yourself , girl . |
| 16 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 17 | If you 're opting for a perm or colour , always tell your hairdresser what you 've been doing to your hair . |
| 18 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 19 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 20 | And it should happen that it 's God 's will that you have been sent to us for protection and education . |
| 21 | ‘ You have been recommended to me , ’ Corbett answered brusquely . |
| 22 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 23 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 24 | Which probably , I think because none of you have been introduced to it , would be too heavy to go through to any great extent . |