Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't help feeling , ’ says Howard , sticking his head forward ruefully , ‘ now I know who you are , that I 've been a bit outspoken in some of my remarks about the system . ’ |
| 2 | In answer to Merrill 's questioning face , he went on , ‘ I think I once told you that I 'd been a bit — wild . |
| 3 | Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The way he wrote it , I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man . |
| 6 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 7 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 8 | Clotilde will never marry me if she learns that I have been a … friend of Irene Adler . |
| 9 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 10 | ‘ I seldom come out of my pulpit ’ , said Baxter , ‘ but my conscience smiteth me that I have been no more serious and fervent … |
| 11 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 12 | I warn the House — I am afraid that I have been an awful bore in continually pointing this out — that , as we extend the concept of health care out into the community , we shall find more and more unsatisfied demands that have not previously been recognised . |
| 13 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 16 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 17 | She knew that she had been a success and that Ludo was proud of her . |
| 18 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |
| 21 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 22 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 23 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 27 | Guilty that she had been the lucky one . |
| 28 | Perhaps she had begun to realise that she had been the victim of an unhappy marriage , rather than simply the cause of one . |
| 29 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 30 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |