Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 2 | These conflicts have , of course , had diverse and individual causes , but common to them has been a change in the political environment in which public enterprises operate . |
| 3 | Key among them has been a failure in the UK to build appropriate or adequate bridges between business , the universities , and other sources of innovation like the national laboratories . |
| 4 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 5 | Prominent among them has been the thesis of the American sociologist Robert Merton to the effect that the values associated with Protestant asceticism gave a positive stimulus to the practical sciences . |
| 6 | ‘ Educationally and professionally , I 'd been a bit of a prodigy — always the youngest in my league . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been a partner for 10 years , I was 43 and could see another 17 years of PW partnership ahead of me . |
| 8 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 9 | Because I 'd been the butt of her wit she remembered me . |
| 10 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 11 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 12 | He had been curled up there , dead in his basket , since I had been a child in a velvet-collared coat . |
| 13 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 14 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 15 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 16 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 17 | I had been the head of Birkenhead Institute for nearly ten years : a time during which great changes had been introduced , some successful , some less so . |
| 18 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 19 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 20 | Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water |
| 21 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 22 | I 've been a man in total control all my life , and I find myself out of control around you . |
| 23 | She rejected his false offering and informed him coolly , ‘ I 've been a widow for many years . |
| 24 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 26 | Today he can look in his pharaoh-style mirror and say , ‘ Oh dear , I 've been a bit of a git . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I know I 've been a trial to you ever since Mother died , and running away with Garry was n't the smartest thing I 've ever done , but at least I met Roman because I was foolish and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me , will he ? ’ |
| 28 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been a widower for ten years . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I 've been a subscriber for a couple of years now . |