Example sentences of "i have be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 2 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 3 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 4 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 5 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 6 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 7 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 8 | The fact is , over the past few months , I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties . |
| 9 | And now I have been responsible for getting this man hanged . |
| 10 | I says , I have been ready for the last week . |
| 11 | ‘ My name is Terry Waite , I have been alone for over three years . ’ |
| 12 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 13 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 14 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 15 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |