Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been half-hoping Vecchi might show before I sent Laura Channing out to what might develop into target-practice . |
| 3 | I read throughout the night , glancing at the bed from where , earlier the same day , I had been certain Francis was watching me . |
| 4 | Before I had been lifeless jumble of miscellaneous body parts but now I was Frankenstein 's monster , shocked by lust into coherence and action . |
| 5 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm , but I mean , I 've been true Co-op through and through erm |
| 10 | I 've been busy gardening . |
| 11 | I 've been difficult material to work with , have n't I ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been worried sick about you . |
| 14 | " I 've been back hours . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 17 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 18 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 21 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 22 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 23 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 24 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd been surprised Carol had offered to ice it , for Carol had never been domesticated . |
| 26 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 27 | You 've been good girls and worked hard for us , and I wish you luck . ’ |
| 28 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 29 | You 've been right patient , ’ Aunt Sarah said . |
| 30 | No , you 've been naughty turn it off mum |