Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 2 | She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 3 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 4 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 5 | Further theological and pastoral training came at St Augustine 's Missionary College , Canterbury , where Arthur Knight was Warden , after being invalided home from Burma , where he had been Bishop of Rangoon from 1902 to 1910 . |
| 6 | The death is reported of A. Shanks at Port Askaig where he had been agent for the steamer " Islay " for over 20 years . |