Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 2 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 3 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 4 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 5 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 6 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 7 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 8 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 9 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 10 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 11 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 12 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 13 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 14 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 15 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 16 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 17 | Maddison , 22 , has survived four knee operations and he said : ‘ I 've been through the worst time of my career — now , at last , I 'm getting the chance to show what I can do . |
| 18 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 19 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 20 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 21 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 22 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 23 | I 've been on the other end I 've had people come sell it for to me . |
| 24 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 28 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |