Example sentences of "[pron] have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 2 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 3 | Their most important check is on whether someone has been a bad payer in the past . |
| 4 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 5 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 6 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 7 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 8 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 9 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 10 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 12 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 13 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 14 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 15 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 16 | With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all . |
| 17 | I understood , you see , because I had been a provincial myself . |
| 18 | I knew later I had been a damn fool but … |
| 19 | Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ? |
| 20 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 21 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 22 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 23 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 24 | I had been a dutiful daughter , an elegant accessory , a nurse and business manager in the service of three men . |
| 25 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 26 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 27 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ All my life I 've been a good mixer … ’ |
| 30 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |