Example sentences of "[was/were] what [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nodded , as if this was what he 'd been expecting . |
| 2 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 3 | She was on holiday after all , and it certainly seemed as though that was what he 'd been indulging in while waiting for his ladyfriend to return . |
| 4 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
| 5 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 6 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 7 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 8 | She nodded , as if this was what she 'd been expecting , and then she took what was probably her first real look at her surroundings . |
| 9 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 10 | I said that this was what she 'd been proposing , dummkopf , but Stuart was n't having any of it . |
| 11 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 12 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 13 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 14 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 15 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 16 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 17 | That was what she had been going to say . |