Example sentences of "and [pron] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 2 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |
| 6 | In social security there is the retirement condition , which governs the receipt of the state retirement pension and which has been a major factor in the establishment of the pension ages as the customary retirement ages for men and women ( Walker 1980 ) . |
| 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 | Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java . |
| 10 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 11 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 15 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 16 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 17 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 18 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 19 | There had been black bitterness , and there had been a great aching void for longer than she cared to remember now . |
| 20 | They had seen enough of their father drunk and there had been a terrible scene at Uncle Mick 's funeral when Denis got drunk and started arguing with them about their business practices . |
| 21 | In the first decades of occupation it was now evident that far too much effort had been concentrated on the stabilization of the Province in purely military terms and too little attention paid to the feelings and aspirations of the Britons , except through the few carefully selected agents , and there had been a tacit acceptance that the rest would come to accept Rome . |
| 22 | Nobody wants prisoners or lunatics on their doorstep , and there had been a well-fought campaign to demonstrate that the women of Garfield would be both prisoners and lunatics . |
| 23 | Intelligence suggested that personnel had recently returned and there had been a significant increase in the number of aircraft seen and in the locations at which they had been sighted . |
| 24 | The Conservatives ' worst performances , in contrast , came where they had a majority on the council and there had been a large increase in bills . |
| 25 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 26 | And there had been a long-standing feud with Christopher Scheiner , who had incensed Galileo by borrowing his telescopic discoveries for his own ends . |
| 27 | Tonga had signed a treaty with Germany in 1876 , and there had been a German coaling station on Vava'u . |
| 28 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 29 | He had caught her in his arms , and there had been a soaring delight , an exchange of joy , wordless , mindless , stronger and infinitely sweeter than anything he had ever known . |
| 30 | Nothing more was said , but ever since Dexter had brought along a selection of his own tapes and there had been an informal division of playing time on the cassette player in the car . |