Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 2 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 3 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 4 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 5 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 6 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
| 7 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
| 8 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
| 9 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 10 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 11 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 12 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 13 | That 's what , that 's how I felt was happening . |
| 14 | Said , oh you were n't in last year when I came were you ? |
| 15 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 16 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 17 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 18 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 19 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 20 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 21 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 22 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 23 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
| 24 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 25 | Presently I remembered that it was when I had been about to call Eleanor Darcy and confirm the year of her marriage to Bernard Parkin , when I had found myself calling Lou instead , on impulse . |
| 26 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |
| 27 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 28 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 29 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 30 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |