Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be a bad " in BNC.
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1 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | * 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 . |
4 | ‘ I have been a bad person , ’ he said . |
5 | You 've been a bad influence . |
6 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
7 | It has been a bad autumn for birds of prey and five kestrels have been brought into the sanctuary in an emaciated condition . |
8 | IT HAS been a bad week for the BBC . |
9 | Moving across the Adriatic , you comment that ‘ it has been a bad week for Bosnia 's Muslims and a shaming one for the outside world . ’ |
10 | ‘ It has been a bad and black week . |
11 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
12 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
13 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
14 | It had been a bad , sad day : receiving permission from Oxford 's coroner to take charge of the body of his President 's son , collecting the coffin from the local undertakers , who had done their best with little chance of success , and dispatching the tragic cargo back to Washington on Air Force One . |
15 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
16 | The child who comes home saying , ‘ I hate school ’ , learns that it is not everything about school that she dislikes when her mother says ‘ It 's been a bad day today , has n't it ? |
17 | IT 'S been a bad week for a bunch of well-connected folk who probably thought they were immune to the worst ravages of the recession . |
18 | ‘ It 's been a bad night for you , has n't it ? |
19 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
20 | it 's been a bad year . |
21 | It 's been a bad day for industry in the region . |
22 | You know so I mean so I 've never had a , it 's been a bad experience for me , not a good one . |
23 | ‘ He 's been a bad gorilla . ’ |