Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 6 | I 'll tell the tax people about how you 've been on the fiddle all these years over your freelance earnings and I 've got those photos of you . |
| 7 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 12 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 13 | It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’ |
| 14 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 20 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Try and make sure it 's dried and then I 'll do it tomorrow morning when I 've been to that playgroup . |
| 23 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 24 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 25 | We both know exactly why I 've been off work . |
| 26 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 27 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |