Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 2 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 3 | where I 've never been , and , on the wall , |
| 4 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 5 | Melanie decided to adventure downstairs to the kitchen , where she had not been . |
| 6 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 7 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 8 | Alix drove on to the staff car park , as Technicolor Viennese figures in ball gowns , wearing ruby pendants , flowered corsages , turned in her mind , in a scene that derived less from Vienna ( where she had never been ) than from Tolstoy 's descriptions of balls in War and Peace . |
| 9 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 10 | A world of dizzying sensation where she had never been before ? |
| 11 | Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability . |
| 12 | in the kitchen , where you have never been . |
| 13 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 14 | The Ludicrous lads may lambast Carter for ‘ boldly going where we 've already been ’ on their new album , but another track , ‘ Bloody Proud ’ , bristles with blatant Fall references , including a riff suspiciously akin to ‘ Could n't Get Ahead ’ . |
| 15 | None of us knew exactly where we were , so the captain decided to continue sailing eastwards , where we had never been before . |
| 16 | I have decided not to list my visits and explain where we have been or where we have not been . |
| 17 | Not with Abraham , but back where we have already been , in the World of God 's making and the Garden of his planting . |
| 18 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 19 | It was a view , noted the SRU 's chief executive , Bill Hogg , at Murrayfield yesterday , which Ian McGeechan fully endorsed — the Lions ' and Scotland coach contending that where they had not been proved they had not , as yet , been disproved . |
| 20 | A large proportion of the children have been referred to the school from mainstream schools where they have frequently been seen as having severe behaviour problems . |
| 21 | Parliaments thrive best where they have not been created suddenly from scratch , but have evolved from a monarch 's Council of Elders . |
| 22 | So , it is far safer for the child in your car if , even though the law does not require it , rear seat belts or restraints are specially installed into cars where they have not been automatically fitted from new . |
| 23 | Where they have not been in government ( eg , the ex-communist Party of the Democratic Left in Italy ) , they have profited , being relatively scandal-free . |
| 24 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 25 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 26 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 27 | He 's so good seeing he 's only been here two days . |
| 28 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 29 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 30 | He was sitting , moreover , where he had often been told not to sit . |