Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 2 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 3 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
| 4 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 5 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 6 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 7 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 8 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 9 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 10 | In the past she has been secretary to Fred Shaw ( company secretary ) , Peter Williams ( finance director and deputy chairman ) , James Moffat ( company director and managing director ) , Paddy Byrne ( chief executive ) before becoming secretary to George Stonier 18 months ago . |
| 11 | You should be , if you 've been party to extortion . |
| 12 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 13 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 14 | She had been director of market planning at Adobe Systems Inc . |
| 15 | What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons . |
| 16 | " She 's been head over heals in love with you for ages , " said Lady Agatha impatiently . |
| 17 | I spoke to that was Monday night , yeah , she 's been head of department , did I tell you that ? |
| 18 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 19 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 20 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 21 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 22 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 23 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 24 | Grave-statues were the fashion in various times and places ; but the majority of the statues we have were dedications like Nikandre 's . |
| 25 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 26 | His source for this information is not given , but he does mention the existence of documents signed by a man of this name which show him to have been kadi of Cirmen and of Edirne . |
| 27 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 28 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 29 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 30 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |