Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 4 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 6 | I 've been darling , I , believe me I 've , you ai n't got ta do it |
| 7 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 17 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 20 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 23 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 24 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 25 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 26 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 27 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 28 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 29 | You look as though you 've been cry — ’ |
| 30 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |