Example sentences of "[adv] to [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 2 | Erin kicked Khaur over to where he 'd been told to sit when the pilot first landed at the burrow to ferry them back to headquarters . |
| 3 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 4 | We wanted to get back to where we had been , and that was central to our winter planning . |
| 5 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 7 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 8 | Some time later , she made her way back to where he had been sitting . |
| 9 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |