Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any . |
| 2 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 3 | of Distillers MG explains how it has been shown to be more cost-effective compared to the use of dry ice slices . |
| 4 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 5 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not quite sure why I have been summoned to the Home Office . " |
| 7 | A little overwhelmed by the extent of his authority , she understood why she 'd been drawn to him . |
| 8 | You know , Mrs Winkowski , girls will talk , and I suppose it was during one of Millie 's lonely periods while under the sisters that she confided in Annabel why she had been sent to the school . |
| 9 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone does , ’ said Comfort , forgetting the times when she had been driven to distracted cruelty by Julia 's unfailing matter-of-factness — and by her concentration on other people . |
| 11 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 12 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 13 | she does n't like where she 's been moved to because of her ill health . |
| 14 | ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months . |
| 15 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 16 | Pip then arranges , secretly , to buy his greatest friend , Herbert a partnership in a shipping firm but Pip 's wealthy lifestyle is upset when the convict , Magwitch , returns from Australia where he had been transported to . |
| 17 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 18 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 19 | Not for Colt to ask why he had been summoned to the Intelligence Section of the Ministry . |
| 20 | As the lights glared , the cameras whirred and the microphones thrust and jabbed , Zen finally understood why he had been summoned to the law courts . |
| 21 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 22 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 23 | She stared at the photograph and immediately saw why he had been attracted to Carrie . |