Example sentences of "you have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 3 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 4 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 5 | If you have been fiddling with the boot files a lot anyway , you should have no bother with this , and will be able to use the in-built editor to make any changes you want . |
| 6 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 7 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 8 | As general wisdom , the longer you have been saving towards a personal pension and the bigger the total contributions paid , the larger your pension will stand to be . |
| 9 | ‘ My lord , you have been forbearing with him , and I dare make an appeal to you to have pity on this headstrong youth , and trust his future good behaviour to us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Duff , you have been speaking about Dr Carey . |
| 11 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 12 | You have been searching for me . |
| 13 | The judge : ‘ As well as being rude , you have been drinking during court time . ’ |
| 14 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 15 | [ 5 ] How do the various pictures of God you have been looking at , and also those which you have yourself , compare with the lists in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 which most of the great world religions would agree on ? |
| 16 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 17 | Winnie , you have been , you have been , you have been cheating on me . |
| 18 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 19 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 20 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 21 | Yes you have been doing , you have been working on it yes , yes |
| 22 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 23 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 24 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 25 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 27 | Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . |
| 28 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 29 | Someone — for example , an elderly person — for whom you have been caring at home and in consequence have been getting income support ( or supplementary benefit in the past ) |
| 30 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |