Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 3 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 4 | Although in theory Gow disapproved of all art later than 1500 except for Rembrandt , Velázquez , and , with some reservations , Rubens , he left to the Fitzwilliam Museum , of which he had been a syndic from 1934 to 1957 , twenty-four works by Degas and six each by Rodin and Forain . |
| 5 | A selection of such writings appeared posthumously as Essays in Jewish History ( 1934 ) under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England , of which he had been a principal founder . |
| 6 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 7 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 8 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Before it he had been a loud , jovial man , given to spontaneous bursts of affection . |
| 12 | You have n't got to think of this in terms of finding the answer for all time , because the answer changes all the time , but what you have is a continued process of approximate answers , but it is n't chaos . |
| 13 | What what what we have is a serious of local plans which include policies for protecting land and they are working perfectly well in achieving that objective . |
| 14 | What we have is a critical discourse , constituting the core of the student 's studies . |
| 15 | Thus what we have is a first-rate account of the use made by capital of space in conflict with the working class which underplays the extent to which this use is a response to working-class organization . |
| 16 | What we have is an anti-colonial movement as a parallel . |
| 17 | What he had was a pampered , spoilt brat whose only interest in life was lipstick and what was on at the pictures . |
| 18 | what he had , what he had was a biggish lorry with a low |
| 19 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |