Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You have no idea , have you , what my life 's been like ? ’
2 She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister .
3 I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance .
4 But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’
5 How dared he surmise her behaviour when he had n't the faintest idea of what her childhood had been like ?
6 It was hard to remember what her life had been like before Leo came , but , whatever it had been , it had to have been more peaceful than this .
7 No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize .
8 Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself .
9 Er fairly easy to determine what your background 's been for the last twenty six years er and I have to say that 's quite unusual these nowadays , particularly in financial services .
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