Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 2 | Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ . |
| 3 | But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question . |
| 4 | Some wry amusement at the choice of weapon could also be extracted from the folio Bible with which , according to Anthony Trollope in his Autobiography , his father used to fell him whenever he had been idle . |
| 5 | Has anybody had the opposite experience with er with the kind of the drugs we 're talking about , whereby they have been helpful and th , and they , and they would recommend them ? |
| 6 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 7 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 8 | The doting grandmother smiled and chatted about how easily the little boy had accepted her , about how she had been worried he might shy away , but how he had gone straight to her . |
| 9 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 10 | I sort of noticed , Joe , how you 've been absent since things started popping round here . |
| 11 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 12 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 13 | Tongues solicitously tutted over the black band still stitched to Melanie 's sleeve for they all ( as they would have in the village ) knew of the children 's arrival and how they had been orphaned . |
| 14 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 15 | Why and how it happens is unknown . |
| 16 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 17 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 18 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 19 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 20 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 21 | ask God to show you how he has been present in your life today , in you and others . |
| 22 | Can you imagine what it feels like when someone has been infertile and you 've helped them to have a baby ? |
| 23 | I could boast of times when I have been successful ( been successful ) |
| 24 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 25 | All these days when I have been silent you have stared at me willing me to speak . |
| 26 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 27 | ‘ It was one of the few races where I 've been happy with my performance . |
| 28 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 29 | That 's , I tell you what that 's the one person that , sitting here thinking now , I ca n't think of any time where I 've been angry with Andrew |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Byrne , I 've been a widower these last three years , and the rectory where I live is big and lonely . ’ |