Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Except that Sir John and I have been most zealous in this matter .
2 If this is true she has n't been near the place — at least , not since Bill and I have been here . ’
3 As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts .
4 And I have been particularly inspired by this : I was impressed that many of us say that " Few understand a philosophical rhetor , and many understand rustic speech " .
5 ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted .
6 I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown .
7 These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement .
8 You know , that 's one of the many differences since Gill and I have been together : I start seeing things I never would have noticed before .
9 I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards .
10 Miss Agnew and I have been patiently awaiting your appearance . ’
11 Your boss and fellow workers constantly tell offensive jokes and you have been sexually harassed .
12 I expect auntie has told you everything and you have been too busy to come , but please come now .
13 And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’
14 There is no reduction from Central Government from last year to from this year , to next year , and you have been totally unrealistic , the two of you , the labour and the liberal parties after May , erm , we 've got ta this , we 've got ta that .
15 I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful .
16 Many of you will have read complimentary articles which have appeared in top-selling magazines , and we have been well represented at the Physical ‘ 85 and Healthier Living Exhibitions held in central London .
17 And we have been quite heartened by Where 's my little list ?
18 Sister Gemma and I are enjoying our work , and we have been recently joined by the third member of our team , Sister Dorothy Castles , a Notre Dame Sister from the Ipswich Province in America .
19 The Aussie boss insisted : ‘ You have one of the best sides in the world in Wigan and we have been very competitive this year — it 's not right . ’
20 Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’
21 A similar picture on European Social Fund which is falling out , erm , mainly relating to schemes for people with learning disability , and we have been very successful on that front in attracting European funding for learning disability , particularly those schemes which have an element of , of training for , for employment associated with them .
22 We all did our best to succeed , and we have been very lucky with the people working for us . ’
23 Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel .
24 We have appointed a National Youth Officer and we have been there leading the way , ensuring that young people have a voice in Britain 's second largest union .
25 But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years .
26 ‘ The success of drink drive campaigns hinges on urging society as a whole to reject this behaviour — and they have been particularly successful among younger drivers ; the same tactics should be employed to target unsafe driving . ’
27 What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils .
28 Many other examples of Peleean eruptions are now known , especially among the volcanoes in the Philippine Islands , and they have been closely studied , since there is considerable interest in how these eruptions occur and in particular how the material in a nuee is actually transported .
29 The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) .
30 ‘ Shandwick offered the opportunity to retain our own name and develop autonomously with no interference and they have been totally true to their word .
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