Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 2 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 3 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 4 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 6 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 7 | I 've been involved in direct mail ever since my first days with the Billy Graham Organisation in the early sixties . |
| 8 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 9 | We 've broken up , I 've been heartbroken through bizarre circumstances … but I still live with that person . |
| 10 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 11 | Often during my varied and extremely active life , I have been overcome with acute nostalgia for Bristol and my University days — truly some of the happiest of my memories . |
| 12 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I have been involved in detailed talks with Michael Knighton for several days . |
| 14 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 15 | Just to clarify matters , I have been unemployed since late last year but have budgeted my small income to be able to meet this year 's Governors subscription at the current rates and hopefully any increase that may take effect … |
| 16 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 17 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 18 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 19 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 20 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 21 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 22 | In the past she had been obliged to other people , William included , and it was n't good for the character . |
| 23 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 24 | Cos you have been involved with special needs here |
| 25 | She 's been foul to poor Adam . ’ |
| 26 | She moistened her lips and said pleadingly , ‘ She 's been good to poor Dilys . ’ |
| 27 | " We 've been self-critical in public and learned important lessons " , he said . |
| 28 | So far we have been concerned with non-polar solutions of amorphous polymers , whose solubility is increased with rising temperature , because the additional thermal motion helps to decrease attractive forces between like molecules , and encourages energetically less favourable contacts . |
| 29 | We at Flight Refuelling Limited were very interested in Andrew Smith 's article on Centrifugal Launchers in the October issue ( p46 ) since we have been instrumental in recent years in developing the concept to routinely launch jet aircraft . |
| 30 | Like any good auditor , we have been realistic about national achievements and failures , about opportunities and problems . |