Example sentences of "you have be [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What could you have been thinking of , you bad man ? ’ |
| 15 | I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ? |
| 16 | What would you have been doing to what , to comes up with |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | → It seems to me , Dave , that you 've been labouring under a bit of a misapprehension . |
| 19 | As soon as you get the good news you 've been hoping for , accept it . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 21 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 22 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 23 | You look as if you 've been bickering with a volcano . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
| 25 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 26 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 27 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 28 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 29 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 30 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |