Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been a [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been a Puccini fan in a very naïve and intuitive way all my life . |
| 2 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 3 | From 1974 to June 1992 she had been a Knesset member for the Ratz , with its strongly secularist policies [ for Meretz 's coalition agreement see p. 38946 ] . |
| 4 | He has been a SCOTVEC examiner since 1984 and is involved with SCOTVEC 's Advanced Accounting courses , and in the teaching of Professional Accounting and Banking courses . |
| 5 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 6 | Anyway he immediately started saying how he 'd been a Leeds fan since the age of five and how his big ambition was to play for them ! |
| 7 | It had been a Saturday afternoon and there had been a crush round the lingerie counter , eager hands rummaging among the panties . |
| 8 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 9 | He had been a Cambridge friend and was then lecturing in classics and economic history at Manchester University . |
| 10 | It 's the third time he 's been a UK finalist . |