Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
2 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
3 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
4 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
5 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
6 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
7 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
8 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
9 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
10 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
11 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
12 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
13 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
14 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
15 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
16 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
17 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
18 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
19 | I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four . |
20 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
21 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
22 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
23 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
24 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
25 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
26 | ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic . |
27 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |
28 | I 've been feeling a wee bit |
29 | I 've been having a mad one have n't I ? |
30 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |