Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 2 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 3 | Then , with the massive illogic he was sometimes capable of , Leo said in a quieter voice : ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to say . |
| 4 | What I 've been trying to do on the meantime is to improve the whole budgeting system . |
| 5 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 6 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 7 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 8 | you know what I 've been trying to get hold of a couple of one of these you know the phones , the phones that Donald 's got |
| 9 | Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else . |
| 10 | Erm , so this is what I 've been trying to avoid , I must be honest about it . |
| 11 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what I 've been trying to tell you , ’ Myra said . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's exactly what I 've been trying to tell you . ’ |
| 14 | Well as you waved your hand through the air I saw that ring there you see and I thought … ah I know what I 've been meaning to ask her for ages . |
| 15 | Yeah , that 's what I 've been doing cutting down gradual . |
| 16 | It 's what I 've been told to say . ’ |
| 17 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 18 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 19 | To reach a fuller understanding of the blood differential — its origin , purpose and effect — it is necessary to dig a little deeper and attempt to trace the underlying reasons by means of a sociological/anthropological analysis — and this is what I have been attempting to do in the course of this essay . |
| 20 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 21 | In staying away she was only doing what she had been asked to do and that was as consistent with her agreement to the request as her rejection of it . |
| 22 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 23 | What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel . |
| 24 | That was what she had been going to say . |
| 25 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |
| 26 | She should have felt relief — was n't this what she 'd been longing to hear ? |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 29 | She talks what she 's been born to talk . |
| 30 | ‘ It is also possible that an assignment you accept turns out to be different from what you had been led to believe . |