Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be a little [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
2 | She 's know me since I 've been a little girl . |
3 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
4 | You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh |
5 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
6 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
7 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
8 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
9 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
10 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
11 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
12 | Just a case of reminding there were some problems it 's been a little bit slow because of roadworks on the high street in Banbury as usual because of that water board work that 's continuing . |
13 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
14 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |