Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 4 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 5 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 6 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 7 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 8 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 9 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 10 | How he had been with the mule packers on that campaign of the 3rd Cavalry 's , chasing down into Mexico after the bands of Chato and Chihuahua and got his new name in a meadow high in the Sierra Madre , two days west of the village of Tesorababi . |
| 11 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 12 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 13 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 14 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 15 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 18 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 20 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 21 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 22 | I could n't think where you 'd been to . |
| 23 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 24 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 25 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 26 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 27 | They could n't remember a time when they had been without it . |
| 28 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 29 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 30 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |