Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 2 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 5 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 6 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 7 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 8 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 10 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 11 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 12 | I have n't exercise like cos I have n't I have n't hardly I 've just er doing everything like , and I 've been working hard but |
| 13 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 14 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 15 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 16 | Does n't bother me You , Stu and I have been broken hearted a few months ago and I 've cried over him not coming to see me but not any more . |
| 17 | I said playing the European Championships in Sweden would later take its toll on players and I have been proved correct . ’ |
| 18 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 19 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 21 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 22 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 23 | And she had been left bereft , broken-hearted . |
| 24 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 25 | Melanie 's beautiful , wilful , and she 's been spoiled rotten all her life . ’ |
| 26 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 27 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 28 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 29 | The problems er that face me accommodation have been overcome with the assistance of the Chairman and the Town Clerk ah and we have been offered additional accommodation here in the Council offices , which is most welcome . |
| 30 | That is what the Labour party said in 1988 and we have been proved right . |