Example sentences of "'ve [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ All my life I 've been a good mixer … ’ |
| 32 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 33 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 34 | You 've been a good boy ! |
| 35 | You going to tell daddy you 've been a good boy today ? |
| 36 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've been a perfect angel . |
| 38 | I 've been a right so-and-so in my time . ’ |
| 39 | That 's er , so you 've been a successful propagandist ? |
| 40 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 41 | Laziest player Again there 've been a few . |
| 42 | ‘ You 've been a big detective lately , have n't you , Auntie Jean ? |
| 43 | 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 — ‘ |
| 44 | Erm so erm you 've been a social worker for how many years ? |
| 45 | I 've been a social worker since nineteen seventy , so ten years this year . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I 've been a true Red for 30 years and more . |
| 48 | You 've been a socialist all your life and were a former economic adviser to Che Guevara . |
| 49 | You 've been a wonderful sister to me , dearest . |
| 50 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 51 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 52 | 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 ! |
| 53 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 54 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . |
| 56 | You 've been a bad influence . |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . |
| 58 | * 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 . |
| 59 | See if you 've been a bad boy . |
| 60 | If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant . |