Example sentences of "my [noun] has been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 2 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 3 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 4 | ‘ My family has been sterile for generations . ’ |
| 5 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |