Example sentences of "what [pron] have [be] " 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 | This is what everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 4 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 5 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 8 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 11 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 12 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 13 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 16 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 17 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what I 've been called , ’ she agrees : ‘ ambassador for the chimps . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Do n't you understand what I 've been trying to tell you ? |
| 21 | ‘ It 's what I 've been afraid of . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Not after what I 've been through . ’ |
| 23 | I KNOW — THAT 'S WHAT I 'VE BEEN TELLING MYSELF , BUT IT 'S NO GOOD . |
| 24 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So what I 've been doing today is working on the low B strings in conjunction with our latest invention , which is a device that uses a load cell to monitor the tension of the wrap wire as it 's going on the string . |
| 26 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 27 | ‘ I have a Korg M1R and a Korg Wave Station , and that 's what I 've been writing with . |
| 28 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 29 | It 's what I 've been told to say . ’ |
| 30 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |