Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] all [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 2 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 3 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 4 | One I remember vividly was when we had all been celebrating someone 's 21st birthday ( how young we all were ! ) . |
| 5 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 6 | Suddenly , above the shouting , shots and noise of battle , the neighing of horses , creaking wheels and ringing harness , came the sound they had all been dreading : the thin , sharp crackle of ice giving way under strain . |
| 7 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 8 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 9 | They had all been drinking , but she felt safer with them than alone . |
| 10 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 11 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 12 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 13 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 14 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 15 | Well , it had all been acting , of course . |
| 16 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 17 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |