Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 2 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 3 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 4 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 5 | Well my wife and I have only been here , living here ooh just over twelve months now so we do n't really know the |
| 6 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 7 | However , inner-city speakers normally , and quite consistently , have [ ae ] and [ Ε ] in items where the vowel precedes a velar consonant ( as noted above ) , and I have sometimes been told that this is affected by RP . |
| 8 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 9 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 10 | I was nervous in the dressing room but once on the pitch and with the thrill of being presented to the Princess Royal it felt just great and I have never been so proud in my life , especially when I saw my sister , Kirsty , up in the stand . |
| 11 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 12 | ‘ Cavell and I have never been lovers , ’ Luke interrupted her incisively . |
| 13 | And I have never been to Ireland . |
| 14 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 15 | You and I have always been winners . |
| 16 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 17 | But basically my mother and I have always been very close . |
| 18 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
| 19 | ‘ He and I have always been very close . |
| 20 | ‘ Dana and I have always been photocopies , ’ Claudia said wearily . |
| 21 | Fenella and I have always been close . |
| 22 | The first is a quote from Al Deere , one of the most famous Battle of Britain pilots : Fate is a strange master and I have always been a fatalist , — he should be a fatalist he has baled out nine times in his air-lighting life . |
| 23 | I rise to support the motion moved in Mr name and I have always been opposed to fox hunting full stop . |
| 24 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 25 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 26 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 27 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 28 | So , at one and the same time , we have been provided with a new characterisation of the British party system that challenges the cogency of the responsible party government model , and we have also been provided with an explanation for economic policy-making and for the decline of Britain 's economy . |
| 29 | We have in the Home Office a copy of the very helpful report by the chief constable of Northumbria and we have also been greatly assisted by the work of the members of the Police Federation , who have co-operated in the analysis of the serious problem of offending on bail . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |