Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly .
2 When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) .
3 People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another .
4 Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding .
5 Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her .
6 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
7 Hector , who had been whining all the while , now crept back on to the bed and pushed his nose under the veined hand resting on the coverlet .
8 They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day .
9 I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it !
10 I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’
11 And tell me what you 've been doing all the week
12 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
13 That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ?
14 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
15 erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee .
16 I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper .
17 ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len .
18 ‘ She 's been crying all the time .
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