Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] a [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 2 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 3 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 4 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
| 5 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 6 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 7 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 8 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been a good and very practical learning experience for the class . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It has been a bad and black week . |
| 11 | But it has been a busy and peripatetic decade for Taylor , Heglund and their co-workers . |
| 12 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
| 13 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 14 | It had been a hot and sultry summer . |
| 15 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
| 16 | It had been a long and exhausting day , and she had to admit that she felt as tired as he looked . |
| 17 | It had been a long and eventful day . |
| 18 | It had been a dark and rainy day . |
| 19 | All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work . |
| 20 | It had been a brief and unsatisfactory encounter . |
| 21 | It had been a wet and unpleasant day , with sleet threatening , but none the worse for their purposes perhaps . |
| 22 | It had been a frightening and humiliating experience . |
| 23 | Although he had been a sobering and restricting influence in a Germanic way upon the Queen , she took to wearing black immediately after his death and , in a sense , appeared never to cease mourning for him until the day she died . |
| 24 | He had been a keen and willing convert to the cause , his hatred fuelled by Grob Mitzer whom he knew and trusted as a friend and corporate colleague . |
| 25 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 26 | It 's been a difficult and painful week for Ron Letts ' family . |
| 27 | But it 's been a slow and confusing process . |
| 28 | It 's been a tough and bruising campaign , with the backgrounds of both candidates coming under intense scrutiny . |
| 29 | It 's been a wonderful and rewarding 14 years generating an ever-widening circle of friends and customers , and I ca n't recall a refund . |