Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps I have been a litle obtuse . |
| 3 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 4 | If only she had been a bit more accommodating , a bit more enthusiastic . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps we have been a bit unfair on John Byrne recently we expect him to keep scoring goals all the time . |
| 6 | Apparently they 've been a bit disturbed once or twice , recently . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps they have been a touch too comfortable — but the collapse of Elliot and Michael 's business has put paid to that . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 9 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 10 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 11 | Perhaps it had been a mistake to dismiss him so summarily after all , she thought with dissatisfaction . |
| 12 | Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency . |
| 13 | Obviously it had been a fight , but since Fairbrother was a newcomer to the school , aggressive and ever ready to defend himself with insults , no particular motive was assigned to either party . |
| 14 | So he had been a gardener at the Château de la Faté . |
| 15 | So it had been a bluff . |
| 16 | So it had been a collection day today . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Colonel Joshua Murchison had always been a tough unyielding man who had made it quite clear to Julie that he would rather she had been a boy . |
| 19 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 20 | She felt disturbed ; thinking of the gleaming Karl with his polished manners and mannered poise , and of how once he had been a boy . |
| 21 | Probably it had been a combination of all these things . |
| 22 | Up until now it 's been a duet between Anthony d'Offay and Lisson galleries to win the prize . |
| 23 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 24 | Well he has been a bit |
| 25 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 26 | Surely it had been a joke , prompted by the dreadful heavy seriousness of Dwight Kronweiser and the overreverent attitude to Walter taken up for public reasons by Viola . |
| 27 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
| 28 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 29 | I thought that maybe I 'd been a bit harsh last night . ’ |
| 30 | I should be congratulated not criticized , and if sometimes I 've been a bit unfair , played a bit of a game , that 's life is n't it . |