Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them .
2 ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at .
3 I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’
4 There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ?
5 What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know .
6 And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be .
7 ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened .
  Next page