Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 2 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 3 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 4 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 5 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 6 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 7 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 8 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 10 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 12 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 13 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 16 | I 've been leaving the worst to last . |
| 17 | I 've n I 've been using the other keyboard all on the X T and I ca n't get used to this one yet . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been using the front entrance lately . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 20 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been fighting the inevitable for too long , darling . |
| 23 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 25 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 26 | I 've been analysing the two sessions ever since . |
| 27 | I 've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet 's records over and over again . |
| 28 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 29 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 30 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |