Example sentences of "[pron] have be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 2 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 3 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 4 | I had been a gang leader in Harehills — first administering the lives of younger children , then by brass , bossiness and imagination extending judgement even over older boys . |
| 5 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 6 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 7 | I 've been a West Brom supporter |
| 8 | Me , I 've been a night person longer than I can remember . ’ |
| 9 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been a Puccini fan in a very naïve and intuitive way all my life . |
| 11 | I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years . |
| 12 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 13 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 14 | All my life I have been a 7ft woman trying to get out . ’ |
| 15 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been a consumer researcher for so long that I am Consumer Correspondent always on the look-out for a new subject to investigate . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 18 | Okay what I have is a starter pack |
| 19 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 20 | An eighteenth century mansion which has been a convent school , a Hari Krishna temple and a training ground for police tracker dogs is up for sale . |
| 21 | The territory affected by the secession had been the British Somaliland Protectorate until July 1960 , when it had merged with the territory to the south — which had been a UN trust territory , and before that an Italian colony , known as Somalia — to form an independent Somalia . |
| 22 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 23 | On the Pennyfarthing Street corner was James Garage which had been a Job Masters with a showroom at the corner . |
| 24 | The Empire Theatre in Middlesbrough , which had been a cabaret venue in the Fifties for acts like Morecambe and Wise , Des O'Conner and Ken Dodd , became the Empire Continental dance hall . |
| 25 | While many of the towns which prospered grew on their manufacture of textiles , York , which had been a cloth town at an earlier date , had been affected by the shift of manufacturing to the West Riding , as well as by the decline of Hull as an export centre . |
| 26 | He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Chris Patten , party chairman , and is a chartered accountant who has been a radio presenter . |
| 27 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 28 | Small and blond with one grown-up daughter , she has been a driving instructor for ten years . |
| 29 | She 'd been a lace mender before she married your father ? |
| 30 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |