Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | I see how I 've been losing : all the while |
2 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
3 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
4 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
5 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
6 | Let's see how you 've been getting on . |
7 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
8 | After a few weeks the time log sheets are analysed for you by a specialist who duly reports back on how you have been spending your time . |
9 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
10 | Well I suppose ringing them up and telling them how they 've been going , how they 're galloping , how they do n't gallop . |
11 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
12 | It provides for both Britain and France a unique representative picture of the quality of family life and how it has been changing in our time . |
13 | But that 's how it 's been happening anyway . |
14 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
15 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
16 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
17 | The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing . |
18 | And that was why everyone had been lying . |
19 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
20 | Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when someone 's been caving as long as he has . |
21 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
22 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
23 | It 's dark , cold and pouring with rain as I leave the office of E. and B. Productions where I 've been discussing the pantomime orchestra with Paul , the company musical director . |
24 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
25 | Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time . |
26 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
27 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
28 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
29 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
30 | Well he er he asked where I 'd been working and what could I do and and I was young then aye . |