Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 2 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 3 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 4 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 5 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 6 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 7 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Michael Herr says , ‘ I had an absolute raving love affair with the war , but my other love affair was with America , not with Indo-China ; it was with American energy , which I 've been criticised for , but that 's how it happened ’ . |
| 10 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 11 | Well the position which I 've been told by my company directors is that we are still trading , er a er an administration order has been taken out and we are continually , continuing to trade and er that er rules . |
| 12 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 13 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 14 | Much interest was expressed from personnel across the system in the work in which I had been involved over the last eleven years with Queensland Catholic Education . |
| 15 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 16 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 17 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 18 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 19 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 20 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 21 | After it had run along the shores of the Adriatic on its way to Monfalcone , I had my last view of the Kras , the country in which I had been born , rising like a great wall above the plains of Friuli and then gradually disappearing altogether . |
| 22 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 23 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 24 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 25 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 26 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 27 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 28 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 29 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 30 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |