Example sentences of "have been [noun] [subord] i " in BNC.

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1 Well it might have been Jes cos I do n't know tha well they 've got , I think they 've got two children .
2 it must have been Thursday because I did n't want him to come , I said to Jim , tell him not to come we 'll just turn the whole lot off .
3 As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna .
4 ‘ Now , it had been years since I had seen Bartholomew Burghgesh and I considered him long dead , yet I am sure that man I glimpsed that cold December morning was Sir Bartholomew himself .
5 ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child .
6 I pre-recorded it to a click track on Tuesday — very nervously , it 's been years since I sang — and will mime it with a live orchestra tonight .
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