Example sentences of "my [noun sg] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 2 | My plan had been to climb for hundreds of beautiful feet on one of Lakeland 's fine mountain crags with one of Lakeland 's fine mountain climbers , but it did n't happen . |
| 3 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 4 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 5 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 6 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |