Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've been a while , I went into mum 's to take her shopping in and Uncle Philip was there . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year . |
| 3 | Sorry I 've been a time . |
| 4 | So for some it 's been a blessing . |
| 5 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 6 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 7 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 8 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 9 | All I have is a list of the names of over 100 donors . |
| 10 | From 1974 to June 1992 she had been a Knesset member for the Ratz , with its strongly secularist policies [ for Meretz 's coalition agreement see p. 38946 ] . |
| 11 | All she had was a yearning for everything that was out there beyond her knowledge . |
| 12 | Some of the others would have to be rewired ; some would never be rewired again , but all she had was a headache . |
| 13 | She do n't buy nuffink , she , all she has is a hamburger and drink . |
| 14 | When he first started , you see , all you had was a fly safe . |
| 15 | When money 's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran , When all you have is a heap of debt — A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN . |
| 16 | All we have is a process of trial and error which , essentially , consists in seeing how well a particular indicator correlates with other indicators of the same concept and with other indicators of concepts presumed to be related in some causal connection . |
| 17 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , who warned that potentially unsafe models remain on sale , said : ‘ All we have is a sham . ’ |
| 18 | All we have is a difference in the referential relations between linguistic expressions and the world outside language . |
| 19 | Throughout the '80s he had been a tower of strength as the last line in defence and had single-handedly reversed the image of the inept Scottish keeper . |
| 20 | And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang . |
| 21 | At first it had been a shock and had made his heart beat faster . |
| 22 | Andrew-wa He 's been a bit er green has n't he , I think . |
| 23 | In 1936 he had been a member of the Archbishop 's committee preparing for a conference to be held at Oxford on Church , Community and State . |