Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb base] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 2 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
| 3 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Between the two , so to speak , in the organizational and cultural space between them , or the Third Area , come the psychic and political relations to which I have been pointing . |
| 6 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |
| 7 | My first example , which is very well-known , exemplifies this point as well as a number of the other themes which I have been discussing . |
| 8 | The source , when they find it , is my swimfeeder which I have been casting and retrieving quite frequently since those initial handfuls . |
| 9 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 10 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 11 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 12 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 13 | And now , a splendid piece of country to the west of the Aspe valley which I have been leaving out : the valleys , forests and mountains south of the village of Arette . |
| 14 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 15 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 16 | And there are many readers , quick and subtle ones , for whom that is so , and for whom , of course , the sense of screen , which I have been suggesting , can serve no purpose . |
| 17 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 18 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 19 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 20 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |
| 21 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 22 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 23 | You ought to hear what I 've been hearing . |
| 24 | Well I I actually must have read completely different to anybody else from what I 've been hearing , erm the way I looked at it , the situation that we have locally compared with what David was saying about the national erm what government are doing nationally and the situation we have here in Cambridge city . |
| 25 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 26 | What I 've been thinking is that as the walls of this cellar ( and the outer one ) are stones — not stone then behind the stones there must be earth . |
| 27 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
| 28 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 29 | Well what I 've been using is Vick and it seems to be burning . |
| 30 | That 's what I 've been wanting , every second of every day . |