Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 .
2 The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics .
3 Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season .
4 Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season .
5 My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions .
6 Their most important check is on whether someone has been a bad payer in the past .
7 Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different .
8 I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl .
9 I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man .
10 I 'd been a naughty boy ,
11 It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first .
12 It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days .
13 I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school .
14 I can see I have been a great burden to you .
15 ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ?
16 With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all .
17 I knew later I had been a damn fool but …
18 Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ?
19 Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds .
20 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 .
21 In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people .
22 I had been a dutiful daughter , an elegant accessory , a nurse and business manager in the service of three men .
23 I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man .
24 By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled .
25 ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life !
26 ’ So this particular sergeant who had been a PC when I had been an acting sergeant , sat alongside me .
27 My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father .
28 I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall .
29 I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country .
30 I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister .
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