Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
3 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
4 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
5 | ‘ They 've all been thinking , ’ he said . |
6 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
7 | We were all asked to sit down — which was absolutely unheard of — and then he said , ‘ Well , I expect you 've all been wondering how you got here … . ’ |
8 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
9 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
10 | ‘ We 've all been longing to see him . |
11 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
12 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
13 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
14 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
15 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
16 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
17 | Well , it had all been acting , of course . |
18 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | They had all been drinking , but she felt safer with them than alone . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
25 | The BR spokesman said an immediate inquiry had been launched but the barriers , warning lights and lights illuminating signs had all been working properly . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
29 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
30 | 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 . |