Example sentences of "[Wh det] i have [been] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 32 | After it had run along the shores of the Adriatic on its way to Monfalcone , I had my last view of the Kras , the country in which I had been born , rising like a great wall above the plains of Friuli and then gradually disappearing altogether . |
| 33 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 34 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 35 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 36 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 37 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 38 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 39 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 40 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 41 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 42 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 43 | I do not remember there having been given such consideration and discussion to the constitution of any other body with which I have been associated . |
| 44 | In many voluntary committees with which I have been connected , older people often ( not always ) offered a calibre of service that was admirable . |
| 45 | The source , when they find it , is my swimfeeder which I have been casting and retrieving quite frequently since those initial handfuls . |
| 46 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 47 | This is the Chinese name by which I have been known ever since and which is my personal ‘ chop ’ . |
| 48 | Two serious illnesses which I have been told about , but can not remember , occurred before I was three . |
| 49 | In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated . |
| 50 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 51 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 52 | My main concern , however , on this throbbing morn , is to reassure any of my admirers whose opinion of me may have been diminished by David and Ted 's startling revelations concerning the use to which I have been known to put my sinuses . |
| 53 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 54 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 55 | Between the two , so to speak , in the organizational and cultural space between them , or the Third Area , come the psychic and political relations to which I have been pointing . |
| 56 | Your readers may be amused by an incident in which I have been involved . |
| 57 | I live in Scarborough , and some time ago enquired about leisure art classes ; this led to me taking an interview for a full-time art and design course , which I have been accepted for . |
| 58 | ‘ I am returning the delightful Quarto edition of Crowe 's poem , from which I have been able to observe what he did later with the piece . |
| 59 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 60 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |