Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I 'm hoping we can see the best of Barnes because since I 've been Liverpool manager it is something I 've not seen . ’ |
| 2 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 3 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 5 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 6 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 7 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 8 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 9 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
| 10 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 11 | I 've been darling , I , believe me I 've , you ai n't got ta do it |
| 12 | So I really can say I 've been Cake-Maker to the king ! |
| 13 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 14 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 15 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 16 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 17 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 18 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 19 | I 've been HIV + since about 1984 . |
| 20 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 23 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 24 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 25 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 26 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 27 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 28 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 29 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 30 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |