Example sentences of "what [pron] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What an interesting coincidence or , in view of what I 've just been learning , perhaps not all that much of a coincidence . |
| 3 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 4 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 5 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 6 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
| 7 | ‘ What I have always been doing . |
| 8 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 9 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 10 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 11 | Merlyn said : ‘ We ca n't have her going around saying what she has just been saying . |
| 12 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
| 13 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 14 | All of which slots in with what you 've just been saying . |
| 15 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 16 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 17 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 18 | This should be very apt from what you 've just been doing . |
| 19 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 20 | worked up the ladder , but , what 's required in a judge , I would say , put putting for the moment , what we 've just been discussing on the side , that is , any question of bias , or sex bias , a judge is there in court , to perform an intellectual . |
| 21 | Looked a sensible , down-to-earth type to me , and he might be a corrective to what we 've just been hearing . |
| 22 | Or is that what we 've just been talking about ? ’ |
| 23 | It would have to be , given what we 've just been talking about . |
| 24 | But what we 've just been saying makes me ask if even that is going too far . |
| 25 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 26 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 27 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 28 | Users have been conditioned by accountants over many years , so that their expressed needs may simply reflect marginal improvements on what they have already been receiving . |
| 29 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |