Example sentences of "and you have been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! ,
3 " And you 've been reading too many novels .
4 You saw her just now and you 've been engaged less than twenty-four hours !
5 He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever .
6 You 've protested to the nation and you 've been noted .
7 Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ?
8 And you 've been supplying them ever since ? ’
9 And you 've been reassured by the responses ?
10 Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper .
11 And you 've been eating it all this time !
12 You know , now that is , that is when somebody is trying to take you further , there 's , there 's , there 's the food , there 's been a food , I do n't know , food , food poisoning outbreak in a well-known city restaurant or something like that , there 's thirty people in hospital , a couple are pretty serious , there 's a general flap on because it 's the height of the tourist season in Cambridge , and you 've been called in .
13 When you 're on blankets and you 've been brought up on blankets er you 're used to blankets
14 Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days .
15 A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player .
16 If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’
17 And you 've been blaming me !
18 You come to trial and you 've been accused of something , what were they accusing him of ?
19 You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ?
20 Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English
21 I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet .
22 The new video , £10.99 from Pickwick , is out now and you have been warned !
23 The store has recently created the post of Catering Manager to control this side of its operations , and you have been appointed .
24 We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are .
25 At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing !
26 And you have been persuaded by these arguments ? ’
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