Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 5 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Albert Pacey made his announcement at the headquarters in Cheltenham where he 's been based for nearly six years . |
| 9 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 10 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |