Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Your uncle and I have been worried to death ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've known Eric since I was 20 and we have been married for nearly six years . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 11 | I have sent many patients there and they have been delighted with the treatment and the care they have received on Merseyside . |