Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 2 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 3 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 4 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 5 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 6 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 7 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 8 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 9 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 10 | The last time a man had touched her it had been a pleasure , a miracle of sensation . |
| 11 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 12 | Images have always crowded Bevan Davies ' mind and in an effort to capture them he has been a photographer for many years . |