Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 2 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 3 | I had tried since , alone and with others , and I 'd been tongue-tied . |
| 4 | I have n't been able to explain this to Dr Grossman , because he would n't understand , but you will understand , and I hope be happy for me . |
| 5 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 6 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 7 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 8 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 9 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 10 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 11 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 12 | , she said he must not strain , and I 've been petrified |
| 13 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 14 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 15 | It was n't er , it was n't good to leave them about , you know what I mean and er oh er yes it 's been very important , if I might say so , certain things as I 've had been called upon to do and I 've been happy and proud to do it . |
| 16 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 17 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 18 | And you 've retreated further and further into it , and I 've been jealous . |
| 19 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 20 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 21 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 22 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 23 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 24 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 25 | And I had been dumb so long ! |
| 26 | And I had been lonely . |
| 27 | Up till then , there had been no official suggestion of the plane 's being recalled , and I had been inclined to believe that Leslie had landed in France , and had subsequently disappeared . |
| 28 | But then I thought actually all this adds up to what you want is someone you feel safe with , someone you feel is going to look after the country and its people well , and I thought is Major somebody I feel safe with , and I thought well in some ways because I do n't think he 's going to turn round and do anything nasty to me , but on the other hand erm I wonder — I 'm going back to your question — is he a man of substance ? |
| 29 | All Pahdra and I require is unquestioning encouragement and support . |
| 30 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |