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 . |