Example sentences of "what [pron] have [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 2 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What an interesting coincidence or , in view of what I 've just been learning , perhaps not all that much of a coincidence . |
| 4 | Rain said : ‘ Despite Barbara Coleman 's chattering and despite what I 've just been told , you 're all safe because there 's no proof about the provenance of the paintings . ’ |
| 5 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 6 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 7 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 8 | What I have here is are mirror images alright ? |
| 9 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ What I have always been doing . |
| 11 | On the far long side , his grey form set off against the freshly raked dark tan of the peat floor , Theodora saw what she had clearly been brought to see . |
| 12 | What she had just been through was insane and illogical , but also unambiguous and actual . |
| 13 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 14 | She was indeed inexperienced in teaching RE having been unhappy with what she had hitherto been expected to present . |
| 15 | In 1880 Russia remained what she had often been , the least predictable of the great powers . |
| 16 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 17 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 18 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 19 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 20 | Merlyn said : ‘ We ca n't have her going around saying what she has just been saying . |
| 21 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 22 | What you had here was your one hundred per cent pure , full-scale Hell's-a-happening , deep-down Satanic bowel loosener . |
| 23 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 24 | All of which slots in with what you 've just been saying . |
| 25 | It 's not much after what you 've just been through , but I 'd hate to end up in a French jail and , as I forgot my licence , I 'm not insured to move this car . ’ |
| 26 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
| 27 | This should be very apt from what you 've just been doing . |
| 28 | That 's right section three , it should be blank at the moment except for what you 've just been given . |
| 29 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 30 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |