Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 2 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 3 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 4 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 5 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 6 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 7 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 8 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 9 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 10 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 11 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 12 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 13 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 14 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 15 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 16 | Your uncle and I have been worried to death ! |
| 17 | Liza and I have been busy with our apple-and-quince jelly ; the kitchen is veiled and festooned in dripping jelly-muslin , ingeniously caught up amongst the legs of inverted chairs , like spider-webs . |
| 18 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 19 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 20 | I think so too probably , and you 've been used to it . |
| 21 | And you 've been far from very well . |
| 22 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 23 | She had always thought that , and she had been involved with him , willy-nilly , over the house . |
| 24 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 25 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 26 | And she had been startled by the strength and abandon of her own response . |
| 27 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 28 | And she had been insistent in her invitation . |
| 29 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 30 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |