Example sentences of "[vb base] i have [been] a [adj] " 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 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 3 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 4 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 5 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |