Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 2 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 7 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 8 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 12 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have to write what I 've been talking about . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 19 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 22 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 23 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 24 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 25 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 26 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 27 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 28 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 29 | It goes quickly and then you realise you ca n't remember what you 've been thinking about . |
| 30 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |