Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , my field work has been in Africa , mostly , ’ he said patiently . |
| 3 | Since its ‘ theft ’ my living room has been under siege from Mark ‘ The Scoop ’ Crowe , the Argus sports hack . |
| 4 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 5 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 6 | My research post had been extended by my working part time , but in 1986 funding ran out . |
| 7 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 8 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 9 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 10 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 11 | Mrs Satterley says , ‘ I love doing lace and my Silver Reed has been playing up but — one phone call — and up comes Trudi . |
| 12 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 13 | Often members of my slimming classes have been referred to me by their doctors , anxious for their patients to reduce their weight and so help reduce their blood pressure . |
| 14 | Over a fanatically carnivorous lunch in an Argentinian joint on Eighty-Second Street my friend Fielding had been very reassuring on the whole Lorne-Caduta question . |
| 15 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 16 | My both-ways call had been a disaster . |
| 17 | A steward will manage the manor and My Lord Cardinal has been only too pleased to appoint a schoolmaster so your noble establishment can continue . |
| 18 | Most of my PHC experience has been gained through HSDU . |
| 19 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 20 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Because my love life has been such a mess ! ’ |
| 22 | The London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project , as my collecting programme had been christened , was to be the first stage in a rescue operation . |
| 23 | What the crew were not aware of was when I went into the starboard turn and dive without knowing that my aileron controls had been severed , and the fortunate miss of the four throttles made all the difference to the immediate arrest of the desperate attitude of " Charlie " . |
| 24 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 25 | ‘ I understand , Mr Grierson , that my brother Roy has been shunting your daughter . ’ |
| 26 | Er my brother John had been er gone to work for the Bank in and unfortunately was drowned in an accident when he was not quite twenty . |
| 27 | The Rector and Mrs Chamberlin , Lady Pemberley , Mrs Burrows and Harry , a tribe of Langleys , George Langley on his own several times , and a host of others Alexandra had never seen , but to whom Aunt Emily had been a fixture for more than 50 years . |
| 28 | Their pectoral fins have been turned to yet more purposes . |
| 29 | Decision process models are also affected by the degree to which brand loyalty has been built up and maintained , since brand loyalty speeds the individual through the decision process sequence , and lessens the degree to which alternative products or brands are evaluated . |
| 30 | Following April 's revolution in which King Birendra had been forced to accede to protesters ' demands for major political reforms [ see pp. 37362-63 ] , the new interim government ( headed by Nepali Congress president Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ) moved to consolidate its achievements during May . |