Example sentences of "i have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been gardening since I was a child . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 3 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 4 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 5 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 6 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 7 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 8 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 9 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 10 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 11 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 12 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 13 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 14 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 15 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 16 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 17 | I have been Havelock Blaine 's mistress since he was turned twenty-one , nine years ago . |
| 18 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |