Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , I have a particular axe to grind , as I have been a professional woodcarver for 25 years in both ornamental and sculptural disciplines so woodcarving tools hold a special interest . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 3 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 4 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 5 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 6 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 7 | I intend to keep on going as I have been . |
| 8 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 9 | Anyway , as I have been given more recognition and opportunity to draw to my strengths under your editorship , I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for giving me a ‘ go ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 11 | And because all these things will begin to happen … exactly as I have been told they will happen … more and more rapidly … powerfully … and completely … |
| 12 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 13 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 14 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 15 | The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this . |
| 16 | However , I can only look at most of the styles you feature with envy as I have been very silly and think I may have damaged my hair forever . |
| 17 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 18 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 19 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 20 | WILLIAMS : I am sorry I have incurred your displeasure and the more as I have been told by Lady Jones that you had a more honourable view than at first was apprehended . |
| 21 | ‘ My mission is to take back to Ramsey such alms as I have been able to gain , at least by the goodwill of Worcester and Evesham . |
| 22 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 23 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 24 | ‘ Not half as eager , Your Grace , as I have been to see you ! |
| 25 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 26 | He was just 43 and said : ‘ It 's a dream come true for me as I have been a lifelong supporter of Liverpool . ’ |
| 27 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 28 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 29 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 30 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |