Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 2 | I 've been a West Brom supporter |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been a Puccini fan in a very naïve and intuitive way all my life . |
| 4 | I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years . |
| 5 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 6 | Brian , 44 , said : ‘ I 've been an Elvis fan since 1954 and have all his records . |
| 7 | She has been a J.P . |
| 8 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 9 | From 1974 to June 1992 she had been a Knesset member for the Ratz , with its strongly secularist policies [ for Meretz 's coalition agreement see p. 38946 ] . |
| 10 | He has been a SCOTVEC examiner since 1984 and is involved with SCOTVEC 's Advanced Accounting courses , and in the teaching of Professional Accounting and Banking courses . |
| 11 | In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child . |
| 12 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 13 | Anyway he immediately started saying how he 'd been a Leeds fan since the age of five and how his big ambition was to play for them ! |
| 14 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 15 | It had been a Saturday afternoon and there had been a crush round the lingerie counter , eager hands rummaging among the panties . |
| 16 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
| 17 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 18 | He had been a Cambridge friend and was then lecturing in classics and economic history at Manchester University . |
| 19 | It 's the third time he 's been a UK finalist . |