Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 2 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 3 | So many nights when she had been left alone . |
| 4 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 5 | That is why we have been given free will , in order that we may choose the correct one . |
| 6 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 7 | She was in MacQuillan 's room again , her eyes drawn to the desk where he had been found dead . |
| 8 | It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum . |
| 9 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |