Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i have [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
2 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
3 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
4 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
5 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I see how I 've been losing : all the while |
8 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
9 | That 's how I 've been . |
10 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
11 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
15 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
16 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
21 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
22 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
23 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
24 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
25 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
26 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
27 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
28 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
29 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
30 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |