Example sentences of "'ve been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ All my life I 've been a good mixer … ’ |
| 32 | ‘ You 've been a good son to me , ’ the old man said . |
| 33 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 34 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've been a perfect angel . |
| 36 | I 've been a right so-and-so in my time . ’ |
| 37 | That 's er , so you 've been a successful propagandist ? |
| 38 | ‘ You 've been a big detective lately , have n't you , Auntie Jean ? |
| 39 | So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘ |
| 40 | Erm so erm you 've been a social worker for how many years ? |
| 41 | I 've been a social worker since nineteen seventy , so ten years this year . |
| 42 | Patch — one of the stars being axed this autumn — said : ‘ I 've been a jobbing actor for 21 years now , earning a crust wherever I can . |
| 43 | You 've been a wonderful sister to me , dearest . |
| 44 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 45 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 46 | ‘ I 've been a devoted wife to him and done nothing wrong in our marriage , ’ said Debbie , 33 , at their £1 million home at the Palm Beach Polo Club , in Wellington , Florida yesterday . |
| 47 | You 've been a bad influence . |
| 48 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 49 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 50 | You 've been a lucky boy have n't you ? |
| 51 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 52 | She 's know me since I 've been a little girl . |
| 53 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
| 54 | Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ? |
| 55 | I 've been an awful pain , have n't I ? ’ |