Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 2 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 3 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 4 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 5 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 6 | But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’ |
| 7 | I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’ |
| 8 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before . |
| 10 | I have been in this city a week today . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 12 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 13 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 14 | And he told them : ‘ You have been in this court many times last year and obviously have n't learnt a lesson . |
| 15 | ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house . |
| 16 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 18 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 19 | It is he whose father was rebel Conservative MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler standing as a Lib Dem in East Anglia but we have been down that road enough . |
| 20 | WE have been down this road before . |
| 21 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 23 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 24 | All the reason that we have been against each other is because of economism and we , we |
| 25 | We have been in close contact with the Scottish Office and the competition authorities to this end for more than 18 months . ’ |
| 26 | We have been in great difficulty during the last thirty six hours over an alleged parachute operation which you have in view . |
| 27 | In addition to that also erm we have we have been in constant contact with the erm Kuwait Red Crescent , which is based now in Bahrain , and we are erm helping to get Kuwaitis in touch with the Kuwait Red Cross in Bahrain , have them trained erm to know first aid basics , donate blood , so on so forth . |
| 28 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been in constant touch with him , ’ said Quigley , as if he was reassuring the chairman about the Exports Division . |
| 30 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |