Example sentences of "you have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars …
2 ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’
3 ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him .
4 Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time .
5 ‘ When I found out you 'd been sacked by Mallender Marine , I thought you might be able to supply the proof I need .
6 ‘ You told Tyler Beck you 'd been hit by a truck . ’
7 ‘ Kitty told us you 'd been killed on the Western Front and that was why she ‘ ad to sell 112 .
8 It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people .
9 ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’
10 ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela .
11 you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway .
12 So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ?
13 The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving .
14 If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent .
15 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 .
16 I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin .
17 I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson .
18 So how come you were so well informed , unless you 'd been primed by Lotta in the role of confederate ? ’
19 ‘ Nor would you , mate , ’ Parks said defensively , ‘ if you 'd been accused of murder .
20 ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’
21 Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well .
22 What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 What could you have been thinking of , you bad man ? ’
25 ‘ And would you have been influenced by my opinion ? ’
26 I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ?
27 What would you have been doing to what , to comes up with
28 No , of course not , she 's too young for you to have been named after her .
29 Whether you have to make urgent repairs to your car or pay for that holiday you 've been saving for , you can get money out of your account without giving us any notice at all — and you wo n't lost any interest .
30 → It seems to me , Dave , that you 've been labouring under a bit of a misapprehension .
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