Example sentences of "[vb base] you have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My long-suffering boss said the other day , ‘ pity you 've been poorly ever since you 've been fit ! ’ |
| 2 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 3 | ‘ I expect you 've been too busy . ’ |
| 4 | I say you 've been thank you very much . |
| 5 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 6 | The important thing I want you to have is , is start on that activity data sheet , get in your discipline of writing everything you do on that sheet and inputting it every week , so that you 're getting actual data as soon as possible . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In an extreme example , imagine you have been told you have an incurable disease . |
| 9 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 10 | I hope you have been able to develop and promote your ideas with other interested parties since then , but I share your sense of frustration at the slow progress and limited imagination being displayed . |
| 11 | I hope you have been receiving mail from me . |
| 12 | ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You mean you 've been a closet hetero all these years ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You mean you 've been investigating them ? ’ |
| 16 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 17 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 18 | Neither of them are gon na get better , I mean you 've been in here all this time and he has n't been up yet |
| 19 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 20 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
| 21 | I consider you to have been two-faced and quite deceitful . ’ |
| 22 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 23 | ‘ Just I know you 've been busy and enjoying your friends . |
| 24 | I know you 've been up there a lot lately . |
| 25 | ‘ You know you 've been wanting to meet someone of your own age . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I know you 've been sleeping with my husband . ’ |
| 27 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 28 | I know you 've been seeing my Josephine and I 've heard you brag about it , you cocky little bastard . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , Gran ; you know you 've been bad so often during your life … . ’ |
| 30 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |