Example sentences of "what [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 2 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 3 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 4 | It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on . |
| 5 | We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on . |
| 6 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 7 | Answering this kind of question will inevitably involve you in a certain amount of guesswork , because you ca n't know for certain what has been going on , but some assumptions are more likely than others . |
| 8 | ‘ If so , perhaps you can tell me what has been going on up at the Hall that has made Miss Hatherby stop your lessons . ’ |
| 9 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 10 | This time the army has gone out of its way to make it clear , publicly , that it has no views on what has been going on . |
| 11 | ‘ Doctor , what has been going on ? ’ |
| 12 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |
| 13 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 14 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
| 15 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Harriet Harman , shadow Treasury chief secretary , said : ‘ The last thing the country needs at the moment is a dogfight in the Cabinet and that is what has been going on . ’ |
| 17 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 18 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 19 | I explained what had been going on . |
| 20 | In each case , examples of the disclosures in accounts are provided to show what information was available to indicate what had been going on . |
| 21 | I was puzzled about what had been going on but was pleased that Dad , at any rate , was in a good mood . |
| 22 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 23 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 24 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 25 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 26 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 27 | Not realising what had been going on , she 'd failed to understand why he 'd had to spend so many nights in the penthouse suite of his office . |
| 28 | Well , that 's probably right erm I can just about remember it and you know as a child , and it did n't really sink in , it was some years afterwards before it actually sank in exactly what had been going on |
| 29 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't think I do n't know what 's been goin' on . ’ |