Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] have [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 2 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 4 | Yeah , well what I think he , I think he will emulsion over it cos I mean the ceiling 's a bit , as you say she 'd been a smoker |
| 5 | What the DECies say they have is a 150MHz chip with a large enough heat sink ( palm-sized ) that it does n't need a fan to dissipate Alpha 's heat . |
| 6 | … ‘ I expect it has been a while , yes . ’ |
| 7 | Having tried it here in our own studio and been most impressed , I have also spoken to JMP-1 converts Geoff Whitehorn and Phil Hilborne who say it 's been a godsend to their recording . |
| 8 | And in fact , I overheard Sir Ewen say it 's been the smallest for the past hundred years . ’ |
| 9 | So he would be vague , and talk of the south , and say he had been a vagrant for many years . |
| 10 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 11 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean you 've been a closet hetero all these years ? ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , whe whe whether or not we consider him to have been a black sheep , then we certainly have erm , rather gone into his character . |
| 14 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I know I 've been a trial to you ever since Mother died , and running away with Garry was n't the smartest thing I 've ever done , but at least I met Roman because I was foolish and I do n't think he 'll hold it against me , will he ? ’ |
| 16 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 17 | Betinna said , ‘ I hear you 've been a hero . ’ |
| 18 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 19 | Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight . |
| 22 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
| 23 | ‘ We believe we have been the victims of a substantial fraud , ’ said the army 's legal and parliamentary secretary , Capt Peter Smith . |
| 24 | It is considered to have aphrodisiac properties , and some believe it to have been the original ‘ forbidden fruit ’ and that the Seychelles were the site of the Garden of Eden . |
| 25 | Most MPs still reckon he has been a fine foreign secretary since his switch from the Home Office in 1989 . |
| 26 | I mean they 've been a rabble all afternoon anyway , have n't they ? |
| 27 | She looked at the strong old face , the arched bone of the nose , the imperious , high forehead and thought : I bet she 's been a tartar in her day . |
| 28 | I bet you 've been a sergeant , I bet you 'ave . ’ |
| 29 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 30 | I mean it 's been a helpful conversation , erm you know I 'm not s I you know you persuaded me , rightly or wrongly , that it 's not that much of an issue in in our fellowship , but it 's something that we do always need to be aware of . |