Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’
2 The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all .
3 What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations .
4 I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before .
5 Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition .
6 Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms .
7 Completed in July 1991 , it now houses our colony of nine chimpanzees , who have not been on public display for over two years .
8 To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care .
9 There are many people who come into English-language teaching without having passed through formal pedagogic processes , so that when they are confronted with the terminology of the subject , they may be at a disadvantage to those who have already been to teacher-training college or who have a university degree in linguistics .
10 Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction .
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