Example sentences of "where [pron] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 2 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 3 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 4 | I could n't think where you 'd been to . |
| 5 | For example , imagine the situation where you have been on a strict , very low calorie diet for a month or so . |
| 6 | And might I ask where you have been until now ? , |
| 7 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 8 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 9 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 10 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 11 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance . |
| 15 | The CEDA leader , José María Gil Robles , had been politically discredited by his electoral defeat of February 1936 and was now stranded in Biarritz , where he had been on holiday when the rising occurred . |
| 16 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 17 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 18 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |
| 19 | Creggan stayed where he had been in the morning , firm and sure . |
| 20 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 21 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 22 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 23 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 24 | She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more . |
| 25 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 26 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't believe it , ’ he said from Washington , where he has been with England for the US Cup games . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You can tell where he 's been by the trail . |