Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 2 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 3 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 4 | I had been a gang leader in Harehills — first administering the lives of younger children , then by brass , bossiness and imagination extending judgement even over older boys . |
| 5 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 6 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 7 | Me , I 've been a night person longer than I can remember . ’ |
| 8 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been a Puccini fan in a very naïve and intuitive way all my life . |
| 10 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 11 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 12 | All my life I have been a 7ft woman trying to get out . ’ |
| 13 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been a consumer researcher for so long that I am Consumer Correspondent always on the look-out for a new subject to investigate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 16 | Okay what I have is a starter pack |
| 17 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 18 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 19 | Small and blond with one grown-up daughter , she has been a driving instructor for ten years . |
| 20 | She 'd been a lace mender before she married your father ? |
| 21 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean you 've been a closet hetero all these years ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The girl had advanced syphilis ; she had been a child prostitute . ’ |
| 24 | She had worked with him once before , when she had been a Detective Sergeant . |
| 25 | She had been a childhood friend of William Egan and though no one could truly mourn such a man of violence , still she had her loyalties , and he was a man who had known how to trade on them . |
| 26 | She had been a champion skater at St Moritz , until her pilot husband had rescued her from what was becoming a very dreary grind . |
| 27 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 28 | She had been a feature writer here for two years and at twenty-five she had already made a name for herself . |
| 29 | She had been a walking ruin when she came to him , and he had made her better . |
| 30 | Long before that , she had been a research chemist . |