Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
| 2 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 3 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 4 | Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already . |
| 5 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 6 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 7 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 8 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 9 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 10 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 11 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 12 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 13 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 14 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 15 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 16 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 17 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
| 18 | Two used coffee cups and an ashtray full of cigarette ends suggested that the two men who awaited their arrival had been in long and deep discussion . |
| 19 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 20 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 21 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 22 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 23 | In 1830 a monk living in Bentota , a village on the south-western coast , singled out George Turnour , an Englishman whose career had been in Kandyan districts , as an unusual arbitrator in that he understood Sinhala . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , it seems clear that Mr Wood — whose career has been in corporate treasury departments — decided quite early on that he was not in the running for the job of chief executive , given Barclays ' desire that someone with all-round banking experience fill the post . |
| 25 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 26 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 27 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 28 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 29 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 30 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |