Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been an animal , not a reflective human being . |
| 2 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 5 | Brian , 44 , said : ‘ I 've been an Elvis fan since 1954 and have all his records . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been an idiot many times , ’ declares Mr Slater , ‘ and I 'm not proud of it — but AIDS has scared the s*** ( sic ) out of me . |
| 7 | Peggy 's voice sounded quiet , even gentle as , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ I 've been an idiot , have n't I ? |
| 8 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |
| 10 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 11 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 12 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |
| 13 | Theirs had been an ardour so fierce , so spontaneous and reckless that their respective backgrounds , the possibility of pregnancy , the fact that one of them was married , were of no account . |
| 14 | She has been an A grade student all the way through her time at the Darlington girls ' school and is a stalwart of the school 's debating society . |
| 15 | She has been an ally of Portugal for over 600 years . |
| 16 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 17 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 18 | That — and you having been an oarsman , too . |
| 19 | In the beginning — and it had felt like the beginning although he was past thirty when they met — she had been an art student falling out of love with a young man on her course . |
| 20 | Her name was Avavnuk ; she had been an Eskimo in her life . |
| 21 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 22 | Jacqueline would later say she had been an alcoholic since she was fourteen . |
| 23 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 24 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 25 | She had been an imbecile and deserved nothing more kind . |
| 26 | If she had been an adult the position would have been different . |
| 27 | A native of Los Angeles , she had been an exporter of craft goods from Lima when , on a short trip to the jungle , her plane was grounded at Puerto Maldonaldo for two weeks . |
| 28 | She had been an actress in a northern repertory company and missed the life : she was as bored as I was . |
| 29 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 30 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |