Example sentences of "been a [noun] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 3 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 4 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 5 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 6 | Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me . |
| 7 | I think the trip 's been a tonic for you already . |
| 8 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 9 | There have been Dylanologists almost as long as there has been a Dylan for them to write about . |
| 10 | It 's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping , if you 've got a load of shopping you just stop right outside the gate . |
| 11 | TELEVISION has never been a time-filler for me . |
| 12 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 13 | It would have been a problem for me if the bloody sergeant had come along and seen me drinking beer or seen that bottle beside me . |
| 14 | Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’ |
| 15 | Inspector White said : ‘ Providing the club [ Arsenal ] were happy , staging a second replay ay Highbury would not have been a problem for us . |
| 16 | Oldham boss Joe Royle said : ‘ Scoring goals has not normally been a problem for us but it is at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | Ardiles said : ‘ When we are back to full-strength there would n't have been a place for him . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It has been a pleasure for me also , ’ said Madame Gebrec . |
| 19 | But since then there had no longer been a reason for them to meet . |
| 20 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |
| 21 | The journey must have been a torment for them , though for me it was a merciful chaos of trudging along muddy roads , of running for shelter from German fighter planes , of waking in the cart caked with snow while my mother and grandmother strained at the shafts . |
| 22 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |