Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 3 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 4 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 5 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 6 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 7 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 8 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 9 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 10 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 11 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 12 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 13 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 14 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 15 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 16 | I was wrong , and they have been a dramatic success . |
| 17 | And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety . |
| 18 | Young Donald — his eyes were clear black-brown , like a lochan stained with peat , his hair was curly like a bull 's poll , and he had been a lovely lad until his father went away , clever with his hands , whittling pieces of wood and glueing them to make little windmills and watermills . |
| 19 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 20 | He was n't getting any younger , after all , and he 'd been a hard worker all his life . |
| 21 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 22 | ‘ He 's in support of us in our bid document and he 's been a good friend to us . ’ |
| 23 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 24 | Judy , who has been at the pub for just over a year , spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the Grey Horse and it had been a long-time ambition to run a pub of her own . |
| 25 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 26 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 27 | But I needed to tell someone , after all these years , and it had be a stranger of course . |
| 28 | ‘ She was a very lovely girl and it 's been a great shock to us all , ’ agreed Melissa . |
| 29 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 30 | Alwen might have known , for when the club decided to build the original Valley in 1919 they began with 2s 3d in the kitty and it 's been a financial slog ever since . |