Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been many things in my time . |
| 2 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 4 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 5 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 6 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 7 | I have been twenty-nine years in camps now . ’ |
| 8 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 10 | Pat smiled and replied , though she indicated by her manner that there was no reason why she should , " I have been next door twice . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been 30 hours and more with him this year so far , and I have never seen him take a drink . |
| 12 | ‘ You have been feral dogs in a cage of rats . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 14 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 15 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 16 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 17 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 18 | All our conversations — we have been great talkers — have now been dumped to join the countless other discarded conversations , arguments and recriminations . |
| 19 | ‘ So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said . |
| 20 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 21 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 22 | It is natural that parents , and mothers in particular , should feel sadness and a sense of bereavement , whether or not they have been full-time housewives and mothers . |
| 23 | They have been little fires , really , quickly doused , but they have been visible enough to consume the Interest of us club golfers , ever on the alert to condemn the game 's heroes for walking on feet of clay . |
| 24 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 25 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 26 | They have been busy recording their second demo recently . |
| 27 | Most of them have been short term . |
| 28 | I 've played a lot of these poker games in my time as a computer own , and none of them have been any cop ( especially bad was Maria Whittaker 's Christmas Box ) . |