Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 2 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 3 | Explain and critically discuss cumulative average residual methodology and explain how it has been used to test a whole range of market phenomena from semi-strong efficiency theory to the efficacy of stockbrokers ' tips . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After the initial dismay he began to wonder why nothing had been devised to protect switches . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why I 've been trying to get hold of you . ’ |
| 7 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 8 | Too many nursing lectures are given by unqualified lecturers , and it is not uncommon for a person chosen to speak on a particular aspect of care to begin the lecture by saying : ‘ I do n't know why I 've been asked to speak , I 've limited experience in this field . ’ |
| 9 | I understood why I had been urged to hurry . |
| 10 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 11 | In response the United Kingdom Minister for Overseas Development , Lynda Chalker , cancelled a visit to Nigeria scheduled for October , when she had been expected to announce a £60,000,000 aid package . |
| 12 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 13 | He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner . |
| 14 | The three-room cottage where she had been born had lost its interest for Eve as her dislike of the Westwards had grown . |
| 15 | She would be in Mountsorrel , where she had been told to leave the coach , by three . |
| 16 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 17 | She unfolded Marek 's exercise book and began reading the spidery writing where she had been forced to stop . |
| 18 | When first sitting down to write your speech it may be a good idea to ask yourself why you have been asked to speak ? |
| 19 | That is why we have been working to reduce inflation — with success ; to bring down interest rates — with success ; and to cut direct tax rates — with success . |
| 20 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 21 | The Mozarts left England in August 1765 , travelling by way of Canterbury , to Dover , across the channel to Calais and then to The Hague where they had been invited to perform before Princess Caroline of Nassau-Weilburg . |
| 22 | However , they are organizing women refugees in the Central American countries where they have been allowed to set up representations and in Mexico and the US . |
| 23 | Hundreds of them are dumb , simple persons , caught in the web of law , unable to comprehend what has happened , what the charge against them is or why they have been sent to jail . |
| 24 | Consequently the professional should discuss what has happened with the parents and make quite certain they know exactly why they have been advised to adopt certain practices . |
| 25 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 26 | Many of Charles 's ideas sprang from a memorable visit to Boston in September 1986 , when he had been invited to speak at the Harvard 350th Commemoration Ceremony . |
| 27 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 28 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |
| 29 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 30 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |