Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last three worked passably ; the March car he had was a fiasco . |
| 2 | Besides , Liza was no longer the stunningly attractive girl she had been a year ago . |
| 3 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 4 | Previously the only vehicle he had was a car llusg — a slide-car , one of the most primitive vehicles used in animal traction . |
| 5 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 6 | If it 's anything like the majority of the population it 's been a bit hairy . |
| 7 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 8 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 9 | Before the colliery explosion they 'd been a fire , in a certain district , twenty yards long . |
| 10 | In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller . |
| 11 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 12 | This season he has been a revelation . |
| 13 | Most of my adult life I 've been a salesman over in England . |
| 14 | It was the only time in my life I 've been a pain to my family . |
| 15 | All my life I have been a man who scorned distraction ! |
| 16 | All my life I have been a 7ft woman trying to get out . ’ |
| 17 | Throughout her life she had been a realist and a coper . |
| 18 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 19 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 20 | And and in a sense it 's been a blessing in disguise . |
| 21 | In the outgoing government he had been a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communications and Institutional Reform . |
| 22 | In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child . |
| 23 | Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media . |
| 24 | Apart from his initial training he has been a weaver all his time . |
| 25 | In his days of better health he had been a crack sportsman , and even managed to play golf to a single figure handicap despite his lost leg . |
| 26 | As a youth he had been a rip . |
| 27 | They 'd been entwined in an embrace , and Sandy 's hair had been spread like a fan ; by Aldridge 's account it had been a touching , harrowing sight . |
| 28 | In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash . |
| 29 | Every time I have been to the Jobcentre it 's been a waste of time . |
| 30 | From the end of the fifteenth century she had been a factor in European diplomacy . |