Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [num] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 2 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 3 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 4 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 5 | Indeed , she had been one of those in the chain passing water to the house from the pond . |
| 6 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 7 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 8 | It had been one of those days . |
| 9 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 10 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 11 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 12 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 13 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 14 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been one of those days , has n't it , Robyn ? ’ he murmured evenly . |