Example sentences of "[conj] you have [been] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 2 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 3 | We want to know the lot , where you 'd been and what time you left him . ’ |
| 4 | He worked out where you 'd been kept prisoner . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My lord said that he 'd brought you from Gloucester , ’ volunteered Ellen , setting a trencher of bread and fruit on the table , ‘ where you 'd been held since your father 's death . |
| 6 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's only as you begin to come out of the Ketamine state that you begin to appreciate where you are or where you 've been . |
| 8 | Are you really constantly reassessing where you 've been ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is that where you 've been ? |
| 10 | ‘ By the looks of it , ’ she said , ‘ they have n't been feeding you any too well , where you 've been . |
| 11 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
| 12 | like it , now but it 's alright where you 've been but it belongs to someone else does n't it ? |
| 13 | Would it be too much , perhaps , to inquire exactly where you have been . |
| 14 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 15 | Somehow you got down here , where you have been since , quietly starving and poisoning yourself to death . |
| 16 | Or you 've been er clouted on the elbow by Jonathan with a hockey stick or something similar . |
| 17 | So it seems that either you are lying as I first suspected , or you 've been deliberately misled . ’ |
| 18 | You 've seen it before yeah that 's right you you recognise it from the shape and and er because you 've either seen pictures of it before or you 've been there . |
| 19 | You 've seen it or you 've been there ? |
| 20 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 21 | Although you have been unwilling to do anything about your feelings of dissatisfaction , today is the time for less talk and more action on your part . |
| 22 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 23 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 24 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 25 | And you , you 'd got to tell them that you 'd been , where you 'd got , where you 'd been . |
| 26 | Another possibility , also in view of your youth , was that you 'd been seduced by the idea of flouting convention by involving yourself with a married man . |
| 27 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 28 | ‘ I understood that you 'd been sacked . ’ |
| 29 | You 'd have known that , would n't you , that you 'd been a twin ? ’ |
| 30 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |