Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been a [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been a West Brom supporter
2 I 've been a Puccini fan in a very naïve and intuitive way all my life .
3 I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years .
4 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 .
5 She has been a J.P .
6 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 .
7 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 ] .
8 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 .
9 In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child .
10 and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years .
11 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 !
12 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 .
13 It had been a Saturday afternoon and there had been a crush round the lingerie counter , eager hands rummaging among the panties .
14 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 ) .
15 He had been a Cambridge friend and was then lecturing in classics and economic history at Manchester University .
16 It 's the third time he 's been a UK finalist .
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