Example sentences of "you [be] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long have you been with this company ? ’ |
| 2 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 3 | Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson . |
| 4 | ‘ How long have you been in this field ? ’ |
| 5 | It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How long have you been in this job ? ’ |
| 7 | So have you been in this business before ? |
| 8 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 9 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 10 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 11 | First you are on this case , then you are off . |
| 12 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 13 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 14 | ‘ While you are in this squadron , which I think will be a short time , you will never use the word ‘ luck ’ . |
| 15 | Why you are in this state now . ’ |
| 16 | If you are in this camp you have a Soviet name . |
| 17 | If you are in this position , and want to change your plans for higher education , do get advice from the Careers Service . |
| 18 | If you are in this position , or even if you are lucky enough to have obtained a place on a re-entry course , it may help to make a tentative assessment of the skills you feel need to be reassessed in order to practise safely . |
| 19 | If you are in this position and you want to return to work it is worth making enquiries of your health visitor or the local authority under-fives adviser . |
| 20 | If you are in this position it is important to take stock of what you have taken on . |
| 21 | Immediately overhead the DF station is an area of uncertainty , and when you are in this position there will be no response on the screen to your transmissions . |
| 22 | If you are in this position , eg. you are putting LIFESPAN on LIBRARY$DISK : in directory [ LIFESPAN.LSTRAIN ] ( and the directory names for the Working Directories are longer than 20 characters ) then refer to Appendix F , VMS Pseudo-devices , before continuing . |
| 23 | You work so tirelessly for the fund many of you are in this hall today now and thousands more are not . |
| 24 | If you are in this category and want to get out of it . |
| 25 | If you are in this situation and have a friend who will come in for an evening so that you can go out , accept their offer for both your sakes . |
| 26 | ‘ I myself ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ want to help you to learn as much as possible while you are in this class . |
| 27 | If you 're into this counting lark , D. microlepis has 95–105 scales in the unbroken , arched lateral line but there are only 55–70 with D. quadrifasciatus |
| 28 | As a technical achievement Castle Master is a work of art , but at the end of the day you either like Freescape games or you do n't If you 're into this sort of thing , check it out — it 's the best yet ! |
| 29 | ‘ Only you , cos you 're into this sort of thing with your books . ’ |
| 30 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |