Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 8 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 9 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have been very happy with you , and you have been a wonderful wife . |
| 17 | That — and you having been an oarsman , too . |
| 18 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 21 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 24 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 27 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 28 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 29 | It was only two years ago however that er Bob discovered her , and George , and she 's been an inval valuable member of the c committee ever since . |
| 30 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |