Example sentences of "been [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 2 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 3 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 4 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 5 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 6 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 7 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |
| 8 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 9 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 10 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 11 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 12 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 13 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 15 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |
| 16 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 17 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 18 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 19 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 20 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 21 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 22 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 25 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 26 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 27 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 28 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 29 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 30 | For this up-dated version of the Romeo and Juliet story , producer Michael Poynor has assembled a large , youthful cast which has been rehearsing all summer . |