Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 2 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 3 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 4 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 5 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 6 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 7 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 8 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 9 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 10 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 11 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 12 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 13 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 14 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 15 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 16 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 17 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 18 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 19 | Ecstasy , which has been illegal since 1977 , is used by many on the rave scene . |
| 20 | Huston-Miyamoto developed a CAI package which has been operational since 1979 for users of the Library Computer System ( LCS ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . |
| 21 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 22 | of such employment in the United Kingdom , a proportion which has been constant since 1987-1988 . |
| 23 | FIG. 2 Translocation of 11 C-labelled photosynthate out of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling which had been pulse-labelled with 11 CO 2 at time zero . |
| 24 | The Edinburgh Conference was the last to be held under the complete trade-union domination which had been noticeable since 1932 . |
| 25 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 26 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 27 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 28 | Polish independence , which had been unthinkable in 1916 , was now a fact . |
| 29 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 30 | The Maastricht Treaty thus represents the moment at which all the Federalist tendencies which have been present during four decades of integration emerged and , if ratified , were legally sanctioned . |