Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 2 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 5 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 6 | And you say oh , about ninety eight , that 's why I 've been seen for , and you say come with me . |
| 7 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 8 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 9 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 10 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 11 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 12 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 13 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 14 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 15 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 16 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 17 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 18 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 19 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 20 | His judgment was almost impeccable , and on the ground where he had been caught for 99 five years earlier ( by Gower , the only current survivor from that England side ) , he now stood tall among the innings ruins . |
| 21 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 22 | Albert Pacey made his announcement at the headquarters in Cheltenham where he 's been based for nearly six years . |
| 23 | But Madame Davenant kept a clean and respectable and quiet private hotel , which is why it had been chosen for Miranda and why she liked it , on the whole . |
| 24 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 25 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 26 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |