Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 2 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 3 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 4 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 5 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 6 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 7 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 8 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 9 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 10 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 11 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 12 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 13 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 14 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 15 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 16 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 17 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 18 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 19 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 21 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |