Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm No , no I do n't think so , I 've erm been a successful I 've been more successful that most and I it would appear greedy if I erm said that there was something that I think I would have done differently . |
| 2 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 3 | You 've been such good friends , both of you . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think , probably she has n't really thought it , she 's , she 's been more concerned with her own self but she 's . |
| 5 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 6 | I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots . |
| 7 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 8 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 9 | It has been another successful season for the two golf clubs operating within Stoddard . |
| 10 | Would he , in fact , have turned in earlier , or would it have been another near miss or accident in the making ? |
| 11 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 12 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 13 | It had been another perfect morning . |
| 14 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 15 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 16 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 17 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 18 | First , from way back in his Edinburgh days and his apprenticeship to Robert Grant in invertebrate zoology , he had been much pre-occupied with comprehensive generalizations about sexual and asexual modes of generation ( Sloan , personal communication ) . |
| 19 | It 's been another hard day for the pound , it closed down at one dollar , forty-three and down at two marks , thirty-six . |
| 20 | He 's been that sad the last few days . " |