Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] have [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost .
2 He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half .
3 The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV .
4 By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War .
5 It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope .
6 Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship .
7 He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago .
8 His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too .
9 Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough .
10 The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year .
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