Example sentences of "what [pers pn] have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
3 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
4 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
5 | I would think that 30 to 40 per cent of my time is spent on what I 've been trained for . |
6 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
7 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
8 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
9 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
10 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
11 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
12 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
13 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |
14 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
15 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
16 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
17 | I have to write what I 've been talking about . |
18 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
19 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
20 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
21 | Part of my process of becoming who I am involved rejecting some of what I had been born into . |
22 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
23 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
24 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
25 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
26 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
27 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
28 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
29 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
30 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |