Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been many things in my time . |
| 2 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 4 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 5 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have been twenty-nine years in camps now . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Pat smiled and replied , though she indicated by her manner that there was no reason why she should , " I have been next door twice . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been 30 hours and more with him this year so far , and I have never seen him take a drink . |
| 12 | All I have is one wash or whatever . |
| 13 | ‘ All I have is this message . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 15 | It may be difficult for you to do any more than this if your time with the video machine is very limited , and the only materials you have are non-ELT programmes . |
| 16 | If what you have are true nichollsi then you are breaking new ground , as the species is new to the hobby . |
| 17 | ‘ You have been feral dogs in a cage of rats . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 19 | That is true , so in a sense what you have is two aspects . |
| 20 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 21 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 22 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 23 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 24 | All our conversations — we have been great talkers — have now been dumped to join the countless other discarded conversations , arguments and recriminations . |
| 25 | ‘ So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said . |
| 26 | ‘ All we have is dry hills . |
| 27 | The only basis we have is mutual desire , ’ he grated out . |
| 28 | They ring me up and say , , all we have is ten boxes to go , er , to all those different places , here 's all the addresses , thanks love , bye . |
| 29 | All we have are conflicting beliefs — no solid facts , so thinking about one 's death seems an impossibility . |
| 30 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |