Example sentences of "[pron] have be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I 'd been Oxford . |
| 2 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 3 | I 'd been number one golden boy until then . ’ |
| 4 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 5 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 6 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 7 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 8 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 9 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 10 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 11 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 12 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 13 | The hot date — the central groove I had been wire brushing — swooned at the sight of them . |
| 14 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 15 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 16 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 17 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 18 | I had no cooker , no fire , no bed , no furniture , all I had was blankets and sheets and clothes . |
| 19 | Brian : The only problem I had was people thinking I had problems . |
| 20 | The poetry book I had was Stevenson 's A Child 's Garden of Verses , and I read it obsessively , once going in to Smith 's in the High Road to ask if he 'd written any other poems . |
| 21 | The only goalie I had was Bobby ‘ Tailor 's Dummy ’ Mimms so I did n't get to see 4–1 scorelines too often . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I 'm hoping we can see the best of Barnes because since I 've been Liverpool manager it is something I 've not seen . ’ |
| 23 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 24 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 26 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 27 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 28 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 29 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 30 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |