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Example sentences of "you 've be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	→ It seems to me , Dave , that you 've been labouring under a bit of a misapprehension .
3	As soon as you get the good news you 've been hoping for , accept it .
4	‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees .
5	It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words .
6	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 .
7	You look as if you 've been bickering with a volcano . ’
8	Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ?
9	I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 ! ’
13	You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense .
14	‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately .
15	But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to .
16	You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’
17	‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says .
18	But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to .
19	Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner .
20	‘ You 've been listening at keyholes , have you ?
21	‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months .
22	It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it .
23	‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’
24	Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years .
25	Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair .
26	Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ?
27	‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ .
28	But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you .
29	‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’
30	If you 've been thinking of making domestic changes or improvements , but lacked the money or momentum to set the wheels of change in motion use today to make a start .