Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [been] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 3 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 4 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 5 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 6 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 7 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 8 | Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow . |