Example sentences of "'ve [been] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 4 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 5 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 6 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 7 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 8 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 9 | I 've been a poor father to you . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been a real help to me , Carrie . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 12 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been a good son to me , ’ the old man said . |
| 14 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 15 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 16 | I 've been a right so-and-so in my time . ’ |
| 17 | Erm so erm you 've been a social worker for how many years ? |
| 18 | I 've been a social worker since nineteen seventy , so ten years this year . |
| 19 | Patch — one of the stars being axed this autumn — said : ‘ I 've been a jobbing actor for 21 years now , earning a crust wherever I can . |
| 20 | You 've been a wonderful sister to me , dearest . |
| 21 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 22 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been a devoted wife to him and done nothing wrong in our marriage , ’ said Debbie , 33 , at their £1 million home at the Palm Beach Polo Club , in Wellington , Florida yesterday . |
| 24 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |