Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had been [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports were coming from all over the country of different children who had been adopted by this kindly old lady . |
| 2 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 3 | We expressed , to the small group now assembled at the innocent French people who had been killed in this tragic disaster , but they all said , very sympathetically — ‘ C'est la guerre ’ . |
| 4 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 5 | Looking round its walls , Breeze realized that the sea must be nearer than she had thought , for there were so many little tablets to people who had been drowned off this coast . |