Example sentences of "what [pron] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 2 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 3 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 4 | This has happened when I have been catching plenty of barbel , with no breakages , and the matchmen have asked me what I have been using . |
| 5 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 6 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 7 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 8 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 9 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 10 | I am trying now to wind down that project in favour of others , and am asking those who have helped me to take upon themselves what I have been doing , and find homes for their old journals — in libraries , universities and elsewhere . |
| 11 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 12 | I will tell you what I have been doing later . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 14 | I now realise what I have been missing , it is a very good magazine for knitters and I shall in future be buying it very month . |
| 15 | To reach a fuller understanding of the blood differential — its origin , purpose and effect — it is necessary to dig a little deeper and attempt to trace the underlying reasons by means of a sociological/anthropological analysis — and this is what I have been attempting to do in the course of this essay . |
| 16 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 17 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 18 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 19 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |
| 20 | Here is a possible list which fits in with what I have been saying earlier : |
| 21 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 22 | The garden resembles what I have been told of Primrose Hill . |
| 23 | ‘ I know only what I have been told , I do not remember that I ever saw him . |
| 24 | That is what I have been told in my surgeries and elsewhere . |
| 25 | Once you come to the end of the page — or some other sensible stopping point — and assuming that you have understood what you have been reading , write on your pad a heading and a list of the key words contained in the piece . |
| 26 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 28 | The package also comes with Blackout ! , a screen saver with password protection , so that you can leave your screen so that no-one else can see what you have been doing . |
| 29 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 30 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |