Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
| 2 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 3 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 4 | Erm , but I mean , I 've been true Co-op through and through erm |
| 5 | I 've been busy gardening . |
| 6 | I 've been difficult material to work with , have n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been worried sick about you . |
| 9 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 12 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 13 | You 've been right patient , ’ Aunt Sarah said . |
| 14 | No , you 've been naughty turn it off mum |
| 15 | The salad bowls are great to look at , and great to use — they are such a good size compared with the silly little one we 've been crushing lettuce and tomato into for far too long . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been tepid sponging and monitoring since he was admitted , but there does n't appear to be any improvement — in fact , I 'd say he 's marginally worse than he was an hour ago , so I thought I 'd better get you to take a look at him . ’ |
| 17 | But just in case they do n't , we 've been busy cooking up campaigns that even Tory Central Office and Labour HQ might think twice about . |
| 18 | ‘ So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said . |
| 19 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 20 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
| 21 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 22 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 23 | They 've been digging coal in small private mines in the area for centuries |
| 24 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 25 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |
| 26 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 27 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 28 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 29 | They have been busy recording their second demo recently . |
| 30 | Most of them have been short term . |