Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
2 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
3 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
4 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
5 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
6 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |
7 | In so far as these involved Thorkell after 1021 it is worth remembering that Olaf and he had been associates in the army of 1009 – 12 , and that both had later served Æthelred . |
8 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
9 | " Dear Miss Monroe , but you have been Sara in my mind for so long — Miss Lockwood 's great-niece Sara , Jenny 's sister Sara , and now my fellow householder Sara and my landlady Sara — I ca n't change my thinking . |
10 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
11 | But he had been Bishop of Durham for less than three years , and was in a see which fitted his gifts perfectly . |
12 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |