Example sentences of "whoever had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peregrine switched the wireless off , imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news . |
| 2 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 3 | Whoever had been there before me did n't know about the spare key because the glass in the top half of the door was shattered and the door was open . |
| 4 | The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job . |
| 5 | Whoever had been absorbed into that wall , was still somehow there … was still somehow alive . ’ |
| 6 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 7 | Whoever had been here had long since gone . |