Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 2 | You seen what they 've been doing ? |
| 3 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 4 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 5 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 6 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 8 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 9 | ‘ But they loved what we 'd been doing . |
| 10 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 11 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 12 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 13 | At last she knew what he 'd been keeping from her . |
| 14 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 15 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 16 | I saw what she 'd been smiling at . |
| 17 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 18 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 19 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 20 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 21 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |