Example sentences of "[pron] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been Victor Kiam , I would have flogged off the shavers and bought the company . |
| 2 | Déchamps , whose first-round opponents included an official PCF candidate who finished fifth , had himself been PCF mayor from 1965 until March 1990 , but had then been expelled for " racist remarks " ( for which a Paris court fined him F10,000 — US$2,000 — on Jan. 23 ) . |
| 3 | The Brazilian has himself been world champion three times . |
| 4 | but Geoffrey says it , cos I says you got ta hit back you got ta do it , he says yes its all very well but its not just Stuart , its been Blankley , Da , Ja , erm Daniel its a load of them and they all get together its this Daniel bloke , bash his head in , I would really , I wish somebody I 'll bloody threaten him , I really do you know your big mates , bloody , he 's got no older brothers , I mean all your bloody six formers , I 'm sure they could frighten the little twat |
| 5 | Its been men like Prime Minister Lee Phung and others in the leadership who have kept his army in the field ever since Vietnam invaded Cambodia back in 1979 . |
| 6 | This week by way of preparation , its been weight training for Ian Smith down in the Kingsholm gym . |
| 7 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 8 | How , how many have you been students ? |
| 9 | Have you been Shel ? |
| 10 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
| 11 | She surprised all of them , not least her husband , when , after listening to Alice 's persuasions and Will 's stubborn refusal to give way , she said , ‘ You been master of your house ever since the day I married you , Will Pritchett . |
| 12 | Where you been boy ? |
| 13 | ‘ What have you been a-doing of ? ’ |
| 14 | I says you 've just wasted it , er tried to say she had n't had it like , yeah I I 'm not in turn it off you been hospital ? |
| 15 | You been hospital ? |
| 16 | Have you been John ? |
| 17 | Phil have , have you been Phil ? |
| 18 | Had we been Lexie would n't have died . |
| 19 | ‘ Have we been ages ? |
| 20 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 21 | The attitudes of the different students interested Paul ; he was popular among them as a tutor , and had there been women among them , might well have become interested in one of these . |
| 22 | Nor has there been experience yet of the voluminous records for individual children when the same approach is extended from science through maths , English , technology , geography , history and modern languages . |
| 23 | Even less has there been evidence of any real correlation of objectivity itself with literacy practice . |
| 24 | In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged . |
| 25 | ‘ Have there been attempts on your father 's life before ? ’ |
| 26 | When Ali Marwash 's daughter died the custom was followed to the letter since the girl was Ali Marwash 's only child and he cared for her more then he probably would have done had there been sons in the family . |
| 27 | Had there been mala fides the court would have had to think of the consequences of that . |
| 28 | ‘ Have there been complaints ? ’ |
| 29 | Had there been disease ? |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the time of delivery was of the essence of this contract , but that this stipulation was waived by the defendant 's requests for delivery after the due date which would have estopped him had there been delivery within the extended time . |