Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you …
2 It provides for both Britain and France a unique representative picture of the quality of family life and how it has been changing in our time .
3 He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet .
4 In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden .
5 The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing .
6 Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance .
7 ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said .
8 Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance .
9 In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things .
10 ‘ Angel , ’ she said , ‘ do you know why I 've been running after you ?
11 What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ?
12 ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’
13 She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club .
14 She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time .
15 She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband .
16 Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared .
17 ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months .
18 We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us .
19 The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year .
20 That is why we have been pressing within the EC for full liberalisation of services .
21 All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ?
22 It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks .
23 His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever .
24 The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games .
25 They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set .
26 The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look .
27 A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air .
28 After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop .
29 Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame .
30 Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more .
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