Example sentences of "[Wh adv] you 've be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
| 2 | I do n't know how you 've been brought up but this house is run in the Fear of the Lord . ’ |
| 3 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 4 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 5 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 6 | Do you know any others erm tell you about erm you know some of the some of the times when you 've been affected by crime . |
| 7 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 8 | That 's why when you 've been running hard you 've got the stitch or whatever , that 's caused a buildup of lactic acid in the er muscles , what you then do is your muscles say , Enough . |
| 9 | Obviously you know when you 've been sitting still this is probably the worse hour of the day . |
| 10 | up to this last week when you 've been doing |
| 11 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 12 | As your float approaches the section where you 've been getting most bites , you dress the line again , following the downstream progress of your float with the tip of your rod . |
| 13 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 14 | What kind of citizens charter is introduced on the back of denying you the right to even challenge the people who are providing the services , or could restrict the right of your family to be together , or the right for you to travel to the country where you 've been living ? |
| 15 | She said , ‘ So this is where you 've been working . ’ |
| 16 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
| 17 | Yes , I heard you , yes , I heard you say the other day , and also did read in the press , where you 've been quoted , Councillor Warby , that you would build various by-passes and no doubt you will be putting , I have n't yet heard any amendments to the capital goal . |
| 18 | Sometimes , the pharmacist may need to ask why you 've been prescribed the medicines just to clear up any confusion . |
| 19 | That 's why you 've been tracking him all over Central America . |
| 20 | ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months . |
| 21 | What , why you 've been crossing them off ? |
| 22 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |