Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 2 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 3 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 4 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 5 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 6 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 7 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 9 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 10 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 11 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 12 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 13 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 14 | Yep , what you do is see that |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 17 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 18 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 19 | ‘ What we need is to put more focus on creating brand-consciousness — and by that I mean everything that makes up a brand , such as style , colour , fashionableness , image , price , quality . |
| 20 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 21 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 23 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
| 24 | What it does is combine both pickups through a capacitor and a resistor with a certain amount of reverse phase , to echo the sound a Strat makes when you jam the switch between the middle and neck pickups . |