Example sentences of "what have [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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1 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
2 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
3 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
4 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
5 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
6 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
7 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
8 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
9 | ‘ What 's been getting to you ? ’ |
10 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
11 | What 's been happening to you ? |
12 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
13 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
14 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
15 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |