Example sentences of "whatever [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whatever we 've been working on then , yeah . |
| 2 | ( Referring to whatever we have been discussing : hooliganism ; child abuse ; industrial unrest ; pollution — whatever has been in the news … ) |
| 3 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 4 | Drunks and drug-takers are less susceptible to pain , because their senses are numbed by whatever they have been drinking or taking . |
| 5 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 6 | He stamped his feet like a restless pony , obviously anxious to get back to whatever he had been doing . |
| 7 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 8 | But he had finished whatever he 'd been doing , so Juliet just tidied the bed and put a few things away . |
| 9 | Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the strength and resolve to follow God 's will in whatever he has been revealing to you . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |