Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 2 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 3 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 4 | It 's always been a slaughterhouse all my life that , all , all my life there 's been one , young girls use them , use some of them food shops round here |
| 5 | Along with other members of my family I have been able to take a cycle on trains from Edinburgh to Stirling or Dunblane . |
| 6 | She told my mother she had been bored silly by Mrs Monro and was tired out with making conversation . |
| 7 | Since her torture she has been unable to stand or walk . |
| 8 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 9 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 10 | Ever since her birth he had been ultra-anxious without expressing , even to himself alone , his reasons for this . |
| 11 | ‘ You have n't been in this neck of the woods for years , and I doubt if in all her life she 's been further than Blackpool . ’ |
| 12 | With its disappearance there have been many changes in the face of Croydon and changes are continuing . |
| 13 | Following its purification it has been possible to study the biological properties of platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 14 | But his route there has been clear and straightforward . |
| 15 | Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam . |
| 16 | It did n't need much imagination to guess that his presence there had been recreational rather than restitutional ! |
| 17 | In the 1970s Ezra Pound 's laminated view of vital and moribund cultures , centred partly on Provence , made her see M. Grimaud 's easy educating communications about the land , the lore , the language in which she found herself , as a sign of real energy in his community which had been ersatz , or only wished-for , in post-Festival of Britain Yorkshire . |
| 18 | All his life he had been afraid to ask about his back , and his terrible fear had made him ill . |
| 19 | for most of his life he has been stuck with a reputation for finding the Goons funny , but nothing since that era . |
| 20 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 21 | All his childhood he had been frightened of his own shortcomings . |
| 22 | During his detention there had been several protest demonstrations attracting crowds of up to 12,000 people , and Khmara had twice staged hunger strikes . |
| 23 | At his death he had been married for at least nine years to a wife called Margaret . |
| 24 | Shortly before his death he had been pleased to see his son , Major Alan Sykes , also later to be Chairman , appointed to the Board . |
| 25 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 26 | I verily believe the Squire would have come himself but since your departure he has been sick abed . |
| 27 | We had been shooting once with our FA-MASs which had been tantalising , and most of us wanted to do something more dynamic than learn to fold clothes . |
| 28 | It is that all your life you have been soft and this treatment shocks and stuns you . |
| 29 | This is what they wanted and I undertook to do it and I tell you , all me life I 've been able to and have done that . |
| 30 | But you did n't demand , ’ he continued , ‘ would n't even admit it was your grandfather who 'd been responsible , which had me in a puzzle . |