Example sentences of "what [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 2 | He understands what I have been through … " |
| 3 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 4 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 5 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |
| 6 | I imagined that , having got what you 've been after all week , you 'd be quite happy to agree … ’ |
| 7 | I LOVE him , I respect him and I honour what he 's been through and what we 've been through together . |
| 8 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him and I honour what he has been through and what we 've been through together . ’ |
| 10 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 11 | There are builders , architects , bankers , colleagues , consultants , and coaches ( with whom it is possible to share jokes and moments of relaxation , knowing what we have been through together and may have to face again , at any moment ) to see . |
| 12 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 13 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 14 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 15 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 16 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 17 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 18 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 19 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 20 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 21 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 22 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 23 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 24 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 25 | you do n't even know what he 's been in |
| 26 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 27 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 28 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 29 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |