Example sentences of "to what [pers pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 've only got to go back to what we 've been discussing and Jesus |
| 2 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 3 | We 've heard erm quite a lot of support from most of the Districts er and there 's been no er particular sort of opposition to what we 've been proposing er in those particular areas from any other source . |
| 4 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 5 | As to what we 've been doing — well — we had something of an adventure today . " |
| 6 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 7 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 8 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 9 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 10 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 11 | But then listening , listening to what you 've been attacking tonight , I 'm very sad really that that 's all you 've got to offer . |
| 12 | So the more you bought , during the time you were in business , the m more quota you got you see , according to what you 'd been buying . |
| 13 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 14 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 15 | In contrast to what he had been fearing , it was a trivial matter . |
| 16 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |