Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 2 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 3 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 4 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 5 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He noted condescendingly in his diary that the wily Verdeţ was ‘ a most agreeable person who had never been outside a Communist country in his life … |
| 8 | Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service . |
| 9 | A student who has not been in attendance for more than three days through illness or other cause must notify immediately either the course director or senior course tutor , or the research supervisor , who shall inform the Academic Registrar . |
| 10 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 11 | Like every other Secretary of State who has ever been in charge of social security , I was under pressure from the Treasury . |
| 12 | It 's believed the Duke had hoped his son 's marriage to Becky Few Brown would be the making of the Marquis , a former drug addict who 's twice been to prison . |
| 13 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 14 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 15 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | His memories of the period are a mixture of Glasgow patter-merchant and re-cycled Hollywood cool : he was a Blues Brother who had never been to Chicago . |