Example sentences of "[pers pn] what [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be honest it is a good way of focusing in on what you what we 've been talking about tonight and if you can I think it would be worthwhile doing as part of your preparation to help you to think . |
| 2 | I 'll just show you what we 've been doing . |
| 3 | Yes , she absolutely is so , we 'll have to erm , find out from you what they 've been talking about . |
| 4 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 5 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 6 | I will tell you what I have been doing later . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 8 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 9 | Later that day , when she asked him what it had been used for , he confessed : ‘ Sorry , Mum , I got it wrong . |
| 10 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 11 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 13 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 14 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 15 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 16 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 17 | Tell her what you 've been telling me ; explain all the pitfalls . |
| 18 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |
| 19 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 20 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 21 | ‘ Darling — tell me what you 've been doing . |
| 22 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 23 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |
| 24 | What you do , is er , travel around the country , to selected spots , phone into me , on the programme live , and tell me what you 've been doing , what you 've been seeing . |
| 25 | What what have you got tell me what you 've been ironing Marjorie I want to know what what sort of things ? |
| 26 | What I want you to do now is tell me what you 've been doing with Miss this week Tuesday . |
| 27 | Right Kelly tell me what you 've been up |
| 28 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 29 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 30 | Open-ended questions are useful in encouraging parents to talk , for example ‘ Would you like to tell me what you have been concerned about ? |