Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 2 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 3 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 4 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 5 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 6 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 7 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 8 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 9 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 10 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 11 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 12 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 13 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 14 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |
| 15 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 16 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 17 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 18 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
| 19 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 20 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 21 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 22 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 23 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 25 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |