Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 5 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
| 6 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 7 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 8 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 9 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 10 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 11 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 12 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 13 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 15 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 18 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 19 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 20 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 21 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 22 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 23 | Here 's what you 've been waiting for . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 26 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 29 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 30 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |