Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 2 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 3 | G. E. Policemen in those days , particularly like me who had been away to sea , were a bit rough . |
| 4 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 5 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 6 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 7 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 8 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 9 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 10 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 11 | He could n't confess it to Florrie ; he could never talk about it to anyone except Josh , who had been there with him — and he was not on very good terms with his brother , these days . |
| 12 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 13 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 14 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 15 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 16 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 17 | She was a most responsible woman who had been abroad with her husband on service before the war . |
| 18 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 19 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 20 | Whoever had been there before me did n't know about the spare key because the glass in the top half of the door was shattered and the door was open . |
| 21 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |