Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 2 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 3 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 4 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 5 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 6 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I wanted to be the one who does the work , ’ Roland began innocently , and then saw how he had been insulted . |
| 8 | How he had been named Ish-kay-nay and brought up by these Chiricahuas and made the son of Sonsichay , one of the sub-chiefs of the band . |
| 9 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 10 | DC Hemes told the inquest how he had been baffled by the case . |
| 11 | He described how he had been contracted by the CIA to fly to Aguacate , a Contra base in Honduras with 28,000 pounds of military equipment . |
| 12 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 14 | Sometimes in the middle of a celebration , Christmas or Easter , she would think of him and the knowledge of how he had been murdered would cast a shadow over everything . |
| 15 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 16 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 17 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 18 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 19 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 20 | At his solicitor 's office in Camden , north London , he told how he had been arrested when about 15 police officers came to his rented flat at 6am one morning in January , nearly three months after the bombing . |
| 21 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
| 22 | The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing . |
| 23 | that 's how he 's been brought up , if he wants something he gets it |
| 24 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
| 25 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 26 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 27 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 28 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 29 | Lt.-Gen Rahman had held the post since August 1986 when he had been appointed in place of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad [ see p. 34812 ] . |
| 30 | That was when he had been joined with Jazzbeaux . |