Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the evening drew to a close and outdoor clothes were brought down from where they had been laid on beds . |
| 2 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 3 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 4 | The winds ( see pages 8/9 for greater detail ) were of such force to blow a Douglas DC-6 and incredible 1.5 miles away from where it had been tied down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 7 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 8 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 9 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 10 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 11 | She gradually brought herself back from wherever she 'd been . |
| 12 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 13 | Not far from where we lived was the local hospital , the Ospedale Peracchi . |
| 14 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 15 | We wanted to get back to where we had been , and that was central to our winter planning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 19 | Some time later , she made her way back to where he had been sitting . |
| 20 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 21 | Diagonally across from where she stood was the door to the back stairs . |