Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be " 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 | But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question . |
| 3 | He had never examined a man before : whenever they had been near before he had been too busy looking for an escape route . |
| 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 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 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 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
| 10 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
| 11 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
| 12 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 13 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 14 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 15 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 16 | That 's what , that 's how I felt was happening . |
| 17 | That was how she had been brought up . |
| 18 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 19 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 20 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 21 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 22 | Amelia McLean described how she had been " waylaid … on [ her ] way home for dinner " by Mr Evans of the W. and C.U. , who " after calling her … everything but a lady , had said she was the most unsympathetic woman in Edinburgh " . |
| 23 | Now , when Beth smiled knowingly , the girl saw how she had been manipulated , and soon the two of them were laughing . |
| 24 | The door of the bookcase was open but there were no other signs of how she had been engaged . |
| 25 | She shouted at those waiting about how she had been unjustly treated . |
| 26 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 27 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That was how she 'd been , back then . |
| 30 | But in the past Brenda Gooch has told how she hated being a ‘ cricket widow ’ . |