Example sentences of "what [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 2 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 3 | He was so persuasive , and the salary was twice what I had been getting . |
| 4 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 5 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 6 | ‘ I must confess , the news it contained was not at all what I had been expecting . |
| 7 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 8 | Certainly all embracing — what I had been seeking . |
| 9 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 10 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 11 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 12 | Only then did I begin to see what I had been missing . |
| 13 | And you never asked me what I had been doing . |
| 14 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 15 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 16 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 17 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |
| 18 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 19 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 20 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 21 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 22 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 23 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 24 | It was not what she had been expecting . |
| 25 | His voice was gravelly , deep , sure … and distinctly not what she had been expecting . |
| 26 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |
| 27 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
| 28 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 29 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 30 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |