Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 2 | " The furniture well , it has been my hobby for many years . |
| 3 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 5 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 6 | Glancing at the ‘ who duz wot ’ bit has been my wont for many an aeon , I spotted an absence . |
| 7 | He had a lovely hand , and wrote about him that ‘ this man has been my coachman for a number of years and I have no hesitation in highly recommending him … ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 9 | It 's been their justification for apartheid . |
| 10 | ‘ You , I understand , have been her guardian for two years ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 12 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 13 | She could n't think now that this had been her home for so long . |
| 14 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 15 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 16 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 17 | O'Shea , of Shepherd 's Bush , west London , who had been her boyfriend for several months , admitted to police he strangled her with electrical flex . |
| 18 | Asked if he 'd been her boyfriend for long . |
| 19 | Hugh Lorimer had been her solicitor for years ; he was also a family friend . |
| 20 | He had now been her lover for nearly three years : the physical side of their relationship seemed to be perfect . |
| 21 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 22 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 23 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 24 | Are you askin' for him an' all to be stabbed with a pair of scissors ? … |
| 25 | Where the Hell are you Galaxy for Windows . |
| 26 | Then , after a terse pause , ‘ Are you fishing for a compliment ? ’ |
| 27 | You know cos the woman I was with wanted to go for a swim and I said no you ca n't this guy , so I went up to him , I said what , what on earth are you fishing for ? |
| 28 | PAMELA : I will never , sir , enter into a subject that is not proper to be communicates every tittle of it to Mr. Belville and this must be my excuse for withdrawing . |
| 29 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 30 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |