Example sentences of "you 've [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye 've never been fucked before , I do n't think . ’ |
| 2 | The simple way there as you 've probably been told by your tax officer here is just to reclaim it at the end of the tax year . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've probably been working too hard , ’ he said , giving her a penetrating stare . |
| 4 | This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name . |
| 5 | Or indeed the work that you 've just been discussing that we 've all pursued jointly in pinning down the government on the transfer of undertakings directive . |
| 6 | You 've just been made to sit in this room for three hours . |
| 7 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 8 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 9 | ‘ No , you 've just been lookin' , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 11 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 12 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 13 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 14 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
| 15 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
| 16 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 17 | You 've just been appointed as a care assistant . |
| 18 | These are the people to whom , for example , you write if you 've just been appointed liquidator of a company and want to get its VAT payments sorted out . |
| 19 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 20 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 21 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 22 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 23 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 24 | you 've just been describing . |
| 25 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 26 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 27 | All of which slots in with what you 've just been saying . |
| 28 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
| 29 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 30 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |