Example sentences of "and [pron] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 2 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 3 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 4 | and er , and so , and er as I say er I 've had a most wonderful life and I 've been a widow now for ten years . |
| 5 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 6 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 7 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 8 | It seems that the policy of Exclusion , which had first been raised in 1673 , and which had been a major political goal of the first Whigs , had at last come to fruition . |
| 9 | In social security there is the retirement condition , which governs the receipt of the state retirement pension and which has been a major factor in the establishment of the pension ages as the customary retirement ages for men and women ( Walker 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 11 | Anyway , muggins here went into his dresing room just before the fight and gushed : ‘ Joe , it 's my first big show , and you 've been a professional in every sense of the word . |
| 12 | If you come out to nothing like I did and you 've been a prostitute and know it 's easy money — well you 're going to go straight to it again . |
| 13 | So , for example , if the flat rate is £200 a year of pension and you have been a member of the scheme for 20 years , your pension will be £4,000 a year . |
| 14 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 15 | Another source of support was Sir Laurens van der Post , who had also known Mountbatten , and who had been a Japanese prisoner of war in Java . |
| 16 | Fitzhugh was the brother-in-law of another of Gloucester 's close associates , Francis lord Lovell , whose inheritance included land in the North Riding and who had been a Neville ward in the 1460s . |
| 17 | Fitzhugh was the brother-in-law of another of Gloucester 's close associates , Francis lord Lovell , whose inheritance included land in the North Riding and who had been a Neville ward in the 1460s . |
| 18 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 19 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 20 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 21 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 22 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |
| 23 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 24 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 25 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 26 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 27 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 28 | And itself has been a victim of that poor quality when private contracts were employed in the domestic service . |
| 29 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |
| 30 | So it seems to me that those sociologists , and there 've been a lot of them , who have taken the view that Freud like some other social thinkers , like any of their kind , for example , was a , was simply a Hobbesian thinker , had n't really read their Freud , or at least they had n't read their Freud after about World War One . |