Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's all the practice cos I mean he was moving all the time ! |
| 2 | Michael showed that he was fulfilling all the promise we had seen in Let's Make an Opera . ’ |
| 3 | But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything . |
| 4 | On his desk was a map of the Fairfax property which he had been working on when he had the telephone call from the owner telling him that he was cancelling all the arrangements . |
| 5 | When he was winning all the time , people spoke of his alleged meanness and refusal to communicate ; when he fell foul of the Inland Revenue they carefully looked the other way . |
| 6 | He knew he 'd convince her ; he was offering all the best ingredients of a successful untruth — it was possible without being obvious , surprising without being mysterious . |
| 7 | A very high earner ( he reputedly landed the first £1 million brief in English legal history ) , he does not lack exposure : he recently appeared in a Panorama debate on Europe and this week he was saying all the right things about Neil Kinnock . |
| 8 | he was saying all the sort say at work you know that they they do n't know and they start on about er |
| 9 | Yeah , he was saying all the way back , please mummy do n't hit me |
| 10 | you know , telling him , he was stubbing all the cigarettes out , drinking all the drinks on the table . |
| 11 | He had told me he was going all the way to Stornoway and I could tell that it was quite an event . |