Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 2 | The crippling difficulty about such ideas whenever they have been raised and examined closely arises from a problem about the nature of federal government . |
| 3 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 4 | I see how I 've been losing : all the while |
| 5 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
| 6 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 7 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 8 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
| 9 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 10 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 11 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 12 | Now , when Beth smiled knowingly , the girl saw how she had been manipulated , and soon the two of them were laughing . |
| 13 | The door of the bookcase was open but there were no other signs of how she had been engaged . |
| 14 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 15 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 16 | That was how she had been brought up . |
| 17 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 18 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 19 | She has , you see how she has been pushed into this position . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , she told me how you 'd been born early , weeks early , how you were very small , but not small enough for special care . |
| 21 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
| 22 | I do n't know how you 've been brought up but this house is run in the Fear of the Lord . ’ |
| 23 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 24 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And how much silence will there be when your father hears how you have been used ? ’ |
| 27 | We wondered how we had been chosen . |
| 28 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 29 | Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any . |
| 30 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |