Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 2 | I 'd been number one golden boy until then . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 4 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 5 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 6 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 7 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 8 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 9 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
| 10 | The hot date — the central groove I had been wire brushing — swooned at the sight of them . |
| 11 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 12 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 13 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 14 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 16 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 17 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 18 | I 've been darling , I , believe me I 've , you ai n't got ta do it |
| 19 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 20 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 21 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 22 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 23 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 24 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 25 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 28 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 29 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 30 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |