Example sentences of "you [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see you 've been busy , and , as I said , I congratulate you . |
| 2 | My life since I came to you has been miserable , uncomfortable and full of pain . |
| 3 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd been married , ’ he said , in a low voice . |
| 5 | Sixteen month you 'd been married . |
| 6 | Sixteen month you 'd been married . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , if you 'd been honest , I think I might have liked you more . |
| 8 | You 'd been asleep , you was not in the land of nod at all . |
| 9 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 10 | It was worse than if you 'd been single — you 'd no friends . |
| 11 | You seem to have an emotion , that made you resent making a sacrifice to your brother , and , and presumably , would have stopped you making it , if you 'd been free to choose . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember exactly when it was , but I know Oliver was tiny and you 'd been ill . ’ |
| 13 | You 'd been ill . |
| 14 | And he looked , I said well I knew you 'd been ill . |
| 15 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 16 | You have to consider things very carefully , and quite often you end up making decisions that you might not have made if you 'd been alone . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 18 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 19 | ‘ Would you have been capable of doing it yourself ? ’ |
| 20 | Why the hell could n't you have been nicer to her , Mother ? ’ |
| 21 | Would n't you have been wiser to call them back ? |
| 22 | The good points , the points you disagree with completely , but most importantly of , of all , would you have been able to have worked from that particular quality plan as presented to you ? |
| 23 | would you have been willing to provide it ? |
| 24 | I mean wou would , as a cadre receiving this would you have been happy to take this up and implement it ? |
| 25 | But if someone were hiding here , would you have been likely to have seen him ? ’ |
| 26 | I consider you to have been two-faced and quite deceitful . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 've been sleep-walking or something . ’ |
| 28 | You 've been such good friends , both of you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It do n't seem right , though , askin' for things when you 've been such a kind bloke to me , and doctored me as well . ’ |
| 30 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |