Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ . |
| 3 | But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question . |
| 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 | Has anybody had the opposite experience with er with the kind of the drugs we 're talking about , whereby they have been helpful and th , and they , and they would recommend them ? |
| 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 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 10 | I sort of noticed , Joe , how you 've been absent since things started popping round here . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 13 | Tongues solicitously tutted over the black band still stitched to Melanie 's sleeve for they all ( as they would have in the village ) knew of the children 's arrival and how they had been orphaned . |
| 14 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 15 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 16 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 17 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 18 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 19 | ask God to show you how he has been present in your life today , in you and others . |
| 20 | Can you imagine what it feels like when someone has been infertile and you 've helped them to have a baby ? |
| 21 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 22 | I could boast of times when I have been successful ( been successful ) |
| 23 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 24 | All these days when I have been silent you have stared at me willing me to speak . |
| 25 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 26 | ‘ It was one of the few races where I 've been happy with my performance . |
| 27 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 28 | That 's , I tell you what that 's the one person that , sitting here thinking now , I ca n't think of any time where I 've been angry with Andrew |
| 29 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 30 | Another situation where I have been prepared to use a tube stem is for short range drifting . |