Example sentences of "what i have [be] [v-ing] " 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 . |