Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 2 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was in MacQuillan 's room again , her eyes drawn to the desk where he had been found dead . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . |