Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 2 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 3 | They had been conversing easily all afternoon . |
| 4 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 5 | It was an elderly gypsy who had been sitting silently all evening , and the voice was as rough as the open road but when it sang the room became quiet . |
| 6 | It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week . |
| 7 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 8 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 9 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , Miss Shannon Lea , that it 's been snowing heavily all night long . |