Example sentences of "you [verb] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ How long do you think she 's been dead ? ’ |
2 | M. What do you think I 've been these last two months ? |
3 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
4 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
5 | You know he 's been good going to bed . |
6 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |
7 | ‘ Oh , Gran ; you know you 've been bad so often during your life … . ’ |
8 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
9 | Then you have the prosecution barrister and there as you know there has been some quite disgraceful behaviour by prosecution barristers , and then the defence council as well . |
10 | . Erm if and only if you find there 's been some real benefits you . |
11 | It 's all water under the bridge ; you do n't want to hear it — I 'm sorry if you feel I 've been unfair to you . |
12 | ‘ Because you thought I 'd been cross-examining him about you ? ’ |
13 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
14 | I know you think I 've been casual about your gown , but when Roman insisted I wear his clothes I could n't turn him down , could I ? ’ |
15 | ‘ It all looks ludicrous now ’ , observed David Widgery , ‘ but if you realize there had been twenty years of Cold War normalism this was a very exuberant reaction to the world of Pepsodent ads , and the father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal ? kind of thing which was still the prevailing mentality . |