Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 6 | with old age , he wants to go for a walk you 've been walkies today ? |
| 7 | You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been ages , ’ said Elinor , as he and Maisie trudged up the steps . |
| 9 | So she said quite right , she said he 's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you 've been children ! |
| 10 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 11 | Mm , how many of you have been students then ? |
| 12 | ‘ You have been foxes in a chicken coop . ’ |
| 13 | Jane uses the car then on Friday did n't she when she 's been hairdressers ? |
| 14 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 15 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 16 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 18 | If only we 'd been strangers |
| 19 | You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers . |
| 20 | After all we 've been mates , working alongside at the smithy . |
| 21 | Some months later I paid him back , ignoring his ridiculous caveats and quibbles about interest rates because they were frankly unintelligible , and we 've been mates and muckers ever since . |
| 22 | We 've been exercises , this is the third exercise with the helicopter . |
| 23 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 24 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 25 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 26 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 27 | When I think how long we 've been friends … |
| 28 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 29 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 30 | We 've been colleagues , you might say . ’ |