Example sentences of "have [be] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 2 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 4 | It could have been spinach she was refusing . |
| 5 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't have been Erdle she saw , ’ replied Iris . |
| 7 | So there could have been conversation I did n't pick up — scrambled by the radio . ’ |
| 8 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 9 | Yeah and something else might have been netball I ca n't remember , something new . |
| 10 | Well no that just might have been Rachael you were just been talking to . |
| 11 | If she had been Nick she would have cried , or at least put on a hurt face . |
| 12 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 14 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If it had been Jonathan I should n't have heard him ; he and Sarah were like cats about the house . ’ |
| 16 | There had been poems she had liked . |
| 17 | But it had been Sandra he 'd called darling . |
| 18 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 19 | We had dinner hours ago , and any way how could you get ill when all we had is stuff we 've always had ? |
| 20 | There have been women I 've liked and respected , but there has been no one I 've loved until this moment . ’ |
| 21 | Murray 's apparently effortless escape has caused fury in Australia where there have been claims he must have bribed his way to a low security catagorization |
| 22 | Not only in areas where there have been tips I might add . |
| 23 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 24 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |