Example sentences of "i have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been a complete fool , have n't I ? |
| 32 | I 've been a right so-and-so in my time . ’ |
| 33 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 37 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 38 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 39 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 40 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 41 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 42 | 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 ! |
| 43 | ‘ I 've been a bad , black-hearted man , but this woman , dead as she is , is more to me than you ever were , or are , or can be . |
| 44 | * 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 . |
| 45 | She 's know me since I 've been a little girl . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 48 | ‘ 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 . |
| 49 | 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 — ‘ |
| 50 | I 've been a social worker since nineteen seventy , so ten years this year . |
| 51 | I 've been a true Red for 30 years and more . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 54 | I have been a good advocate in my time . |
| 55 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 56 | All my life I have been a close , but detached , observer of the crofting scene . |
| 57 | He was just 43 and said : ‘ It 's a dream come true for me as I have been a lifelong supporter of Liverpool . ’ |
| 58 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 59 | I have been a keen bird photographer for almost three years and have spent many holidays walking the same heather-covered ground described in the article . |
| 60 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |