Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 2 | I have been two hundred miles south of Moscow . |
| 3 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 4 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 5 | I have been twenty-nine years in camps now . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been 30 hours and more with him this year so far , and I have never seen him take a drink . |
| 7 | All I have is one wash or whatever . |
| 8 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 9 | However , although the first part is quiet , the quietness is deadly — it is the still of a battlefield after a battle — the sort of picture you have is one of a film of war where the previous scene has been fast , tense and confusing with loud , dramatic music and scenes of battle and suddenly everything becomes quiet as the camera moves slowly over a battle field strewn with bodies — this is the sort of stillness of these lines — the stillness of death . |
| 10 | That is true , so in a sense what you have is two aspects . |
| 11 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 12 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 13 | And about the biggest problem today , that of unemployment what we have is nine thousand pounds put back into the the employment development fund . |
| 14 | What we have is nine thousand pounds put back into the employment development fund still leaving a cut . |
| 15 | The youngest we have is two and a half and the oldest is around seventy . |
| 16 | They ring me up and say , , all we have is ten boxes to go , er , to all those different places , here 's all the addresses , thanks love , bye . |
| 17 | As we shall see later , they have been one of the factors that have helped to tip the economic balance firmly against the nuclear option . |
| 18 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 19 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |