Example sentences of "'ve been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been a complete fool , have n't I ? |
| 2 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 3 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 4 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 5 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 6 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 10 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 11 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 12 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 13 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 14 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 15 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 16 | Well , I 've been a bloody fool and no mistake . |
| 17 | I 've been a poor father to you . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been a real help to me , Carrie . ’ |
| 19 | You 've been a real sport , mister , standin' up for me like you did , and fetchin' that brute a lovely wallop . |
| 20 | You 've been a real pal . " |
| 21 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 23 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 24 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 25 | You 've been a good boy ! |
| 26 | You going to tell daddy you 've been a good boy today ? |
| 27 | You 've been a good lodger and paid regular , and I 'm sorry about it ; but there it is , Mr Arkwright . |
| 28 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 29 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 30 | You 've been a good wife , Elaine . ’ |