Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] had been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffolk was the only link and he could remember quite distinctly , on first going to Nunes , how there had been some dispute as to whether it was in Suffolk or Essex . |
| 2 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 3 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 4 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |