Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the 29-year-old centre-half explained how he had been the victim of his own eagerness to be involved in the Kop cause , despite a virus problem . |
| 2 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 3 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 4 | William Cossart arrived in Madeira in 1808 from Ireland , where he had been the agent for Newton , Gordon , Murdoch & Co . |
| 5 | This makes for a remarkable degree of working-class homogeneity , at least for the descendants of those who arrived before 1920 when what had been the world 's wealthiest and most productive industrial region outside the USA went into a very rapid decline . |