Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 2 | You have no idea , have you , what my life 's been like ? ’ |
| 3 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 4 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 5 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 6 | How dared he surmise her behaviour when he had n't the faintest idea of what her childhood had been like ? |
| 7 | It was hard to remember what her life had been like before Leo came , but , whatever it had been , it had to have been more peaceful than this . |
| 8 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 9 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 10 | Er fairly easy to determine what your background 's been for the last twenty six years er and I have to say that 's quite unusual these nowadays , particularly in financial services . |
| 11 | Could I suggest erm Mr Chairman er our our Treasurer has been under er some pressure recently . |