Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have be in " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 4 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 5 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 6 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 7 | That was when he had been in the SAS . |
| 8 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 9 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 10 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 11 | Creggan stayed where he had been in the morning , firm and sure . |
| 12 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 13 | She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more . |
| 14 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 15 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 16 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |