Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 2 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 3 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 4 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 5 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 6 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 7 | It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’ |
| 8 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 9 | 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 . |