Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh adv] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 2 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 3 | It was only later I suspected this was how they 'd obtained their detailed information about me . |
| 4 | This was how he had felt , yesterday , the days before yesterday , and intermittently in all the thousands of days since childhood . |
| 5 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 6 | That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old . |
| 7 | That was how he had come to go on board the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 8 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 9 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 10 | Or that was how it had looked on the final report . |
| 11 | So that was how it had started . |
| 12 | That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique . |
| 13 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |
| 14 | This was how she had coped with a desperate childhood of loss . |
| 15 | ‘ Tarts ’ was how she had described them in her own mind . |
| 16 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 17 | That was where they had kept their precious stones . ’ |
| 18 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
| 19 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 20 | The orphanage was where she 'd developed her pert tongue , no doubt about it . |
| 21 | It was where she had gone after visiting the Skein of Geese . |
| 22 | That was where she had met Nigel , in one of the amenity side-wards . |
| 23 | The Concorde ticket to New York was where she had left it the night before . |
| 24 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 25 | Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien . |
| 26 | On it lay a cellophaned wallet of Guyland press handouts — this was where I 'd scribbled his number . |
| 27 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 28 | The doughnut was where I 'd left it . |
| 29 | That was where I had made my bed , back in the mid-sixties . |
| 30 | He was where I had left him but he looked different as he beckoned excitedly to me . |