Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 2 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 3 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 4 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
| 5 | By the time I had been there a year , I walked and neighed like the Houys . |
| 6 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 7 | Nevertheless on arriving in Sydney I was brought into the Theosophical Centre , and before I had been there a week found myself a very interested enquirer . |
| 8 | ‘ Christina , I know I 've been here a year longer than you but I 'm sure you 've worked these things out for yourself by now . |
| 9 | Actually I 've been here a year . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been around a bit , I 've learned a thing or two , I know the score . |
| 12 | Er you can hire sail boats and er it 's I I 've been there a couple of times . |
| 13 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 16 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 17 | You might There are certain new settlement proposals that have been put forward in other parts of the country which has been basically a bolt on to er an existing group of |
| 18 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 19 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 20 | Today , however , the cathedral organist is more likely to be one who has been successively an organ scholar , a university graduate and a sub-organist at a cathedral . |
| 21 | In return , he got a letter assuring him that Michael Joyce was ‘ one of the most respectable , law-abiding and loyal men in the locality , and one who has been consistently an advocate of the ‘ pro-Allied ’ cause since the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 22 | Following her second disappearance her father wrote , ‘ I 've had little hopes of her — I consider what I write — since she has been half a year old . ’ |
| 23 | Although Joanne feels sore at the selectors , there are those who believe that she has been more a victim of circumstance than anything else . |
| 24 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been here a while , then ? ’ |
| 26 | Do n't you get critical when you 've been here a bit ? |
| 27 | ‘ I must n't frighten you before you 've been here a week , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 28 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |
| 29 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You have been here a week , Holly , I have been here one hundred times longer . |