Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 2 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 3 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 4 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 5 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 6 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 7 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 8 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 9 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 10 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 11 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 12 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 13 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 14 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 15 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 16 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 17 | Your uncle and I have been worried to death ! |
| 18 | Liza and I have been busy with our apple-and-quince jelly ; the kitchen is veiled and festooned in dripping jelly-muslin , ingeniously caught up amongst the legs of inverted chairs , like spider-webs . |
| 19 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 20 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 21 | I think so too probably , and you 've been used to it . |
| 22 | And you 've been far from very well . |
| 23 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 24 | She had always thought that , and she had been involved with him , willy-nilly , over the house . |
| 25 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 26 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 27 | And she had been startled by the strength and abandon of her own response . |
| 28 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 29 | And she had been insistent in her invitation . |
| 30 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |