Example sentences of "my [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | My work has been mainly about the development of a sense of identity and of a sense of community , the development of relationships but not actually about sex . |
2 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
3 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
4 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
5 | My sisters have been along to a couple of events , and Mum and Dad watch my performances on television , as well as videos of my races . |
6 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
7 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
8 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |
9 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |