Example sentences of "'ve been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I 've been a schoolteacher , a receptionist , a chambermaid , all sorts of things really . ’ |
| 2 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 4 | They 'd say things like , ‘ Glen , you 've been a really naughty boy . |
| 5 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 6 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been a bit lucky , ’ he said , modestly . |
| 8 | I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years . |
| 9 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 12 | Most of my adult life I 've been a salesman over in England . |
| 13 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 14 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ Jimmy , who had n't said a word , suddenly said , ‘ You know , Leslie , you 've been a bit of a bastard , have n't you … |
| 16 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 17 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 18 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 19 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 20 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 21 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 22 | We 've been a bit lucky because , although our ball is in high rough — and I mean high ; it was up to Greg 's knees — we 've caught a good lie , so he can hit a pitching-wedge back on to the fairway . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been a bit depressed , ’ she said , ‘ that 's all . ’ |
| 24 | There 've been a lot of valuable plants and bulbs stolen from the Botanical Gardens during the last few weeks . |
| 25 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 26 | You can dance like Ginger Rogers You 've a figure like Marilyn Monroe You 've been a blonde since a week last Thursday So yir roots have n't started to show … |
| 27 | It'd 've been a bit before eleven o'clock . |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Byrne , I 've been a widower these last three years , and the rectory where I live is big and lonely . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been a friend to thee ever since , have n't I , Midnight ? ’ |
| 30 | I 've been a ZZAP ! fan since Issue 68 , and I 'd like to say it 's the most amazing thing that has set foot on earth . |