Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] 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 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 5 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 7 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 9 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 10 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 11 | He was so persuasive , and the salary was twice what I had been getting . |
| 12 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I must confess , the news it contained was not at all what I had been expecting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Certainly all embracing — what I had been seeking . |
| 17 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 20 | Only then did I begin to see what I had been missing . |
| 21 | And you never asked me what I had been doing . |
| 22 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 25 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |