Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
| 2 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 3 | A squirrel skittering on the branches of a lilac drew the Colonel 's attention upwards , away from the ground where he had been digging the soil around his feet with the tip of his walking stick . |
| 4 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 5 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 6 | At one time Prime considered defecting to Russia where he had been promised a KGB colonel 's pension for life . |
| 7 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |
| 8 | Well I think no greater no other individual but Paddy Ashdown has been providing a healthy lead , but sadly it 's one where he 's been citing a a an approach to Bosnia one month . |
| 9 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |