Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a picture of self-respecting and self-reliant people whose expectations were pitifully modest , who knew they could be worse off , who perhaps remembered times when they had been even poorer , but who were always haunted by the spectre of poverty ( as they understood the term ) . |
| 32 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 33 | Though sometimes , when they 've been smashed into and then I have to turn the other way , they go oh ! |
| 34 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 35 | Certainly some famous recording artists have had some frightening moments when they have been nudged and brushed past by these two ghosts . |
| 36 | Natural selection favours those individuals that can tell when they have been parasitised and eject the cuckoo 's eggs . |
| 37 | It is only when they have been thus adopted that conscious strategy turns into habitual rule , coping into culture . |
| 38 | The Book of Ezra records that when Cyrus captured Babylon in 539BC , to Jerusalem , whence they had been exiled by their Babylonian conquerors . |
| 39 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 40 | I do n't question people very hard about where they 've been . |
| 41 | You do n't know where they 've been before they came into your kitchen . |
| 42 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 43 | Most graduates move away from the town where they 've been studying when they start work , so may be looking to transfer their bank account to a more convenient branch . |
| 44 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 45 | The idea is that formalizing it much the same as you had , I 'd just given and it 's got induction er it 's got A B C erm there are personal details so that departments people picking up , see where they 've gone , see where they 've been and in things like skills , knowledge required , objectives start , finish dates how and with whom results comments . |
| 46 | They 've 4 Olympic oarsmen on board , 2 gold medallists and 4 blues and the word from the water at Wallingford , where they 've been training . |
| 47 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 48 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 49 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 50 | You see , what it is , it 's where they 've been behind with their mortgage , we will pay a slightly higher rate , but it 's only |
| 51 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
| 52 | Do n't know where they 've been . |
| 53 | erm from my recollection the main problem with it is for the most part , I think , these self-build projects , where they 've been erm pursued in other places , have used land which was not otherwise utilizable , and that 's the way that they 've actually reduced the price of the finished house . |
| 54 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 55 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 56 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 57 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 58 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 59 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 60 | I do n't know where they 'd been |