Example sentences of "you [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Liz , you 're a you 've been Beltane Queen .
2	So you 've been shit stirring .
3	Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee .
4	with old age , he wants to go for a walk you 've been walkies today ?
5	You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh
6	‘ You 've been ages , ’ said Elinor , as he and Maisie trudged up the steps .
7	You look as though you 've been cry — ’
8	Your mother 'll wonder where you 've been Mike .
9	And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land .
10	So she said quite right , she said he 's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you 've been children !
11	You 've been under-strain yourself over these last few weeks .
12	You should be , if you 've been party to extortion .
13	Oh you 've been self- employed yes
14	Mm , how many of you have been students then ?
15	He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party .
16	In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish .
17	‘ You have been foxes in a chicken coop . ’
18	You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton .
19	" Dear Miss Monroe , but you have been Sara in my mind for so long — Miss Lockwood 's great-niece Sara , Jenny 's sister Sara , and now my fellow householder Sara and my landlady Sara — I ca n't change my thinking .

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