Example sentences of "[vb base] all [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've all been thinking , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 5 | 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 … . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 've all been longing to see him . |
| 9 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 10 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 11 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 12 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 13 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 14 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , of course , the cataclysmic events of of 1989 and the recommendations of the Youth Commission , which attributed the debacle partly to the loss of credibility in the media , have all been determining factors . |
| 16 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 17 | I 've lost 4ins ( 10cm ) all over and my friends can not believe it — they have all been buying your book ! |
| 18 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 19 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 20 | The ‘ just rollered ’ look is being worn by some of the world 's most beautiful women — top model Linda Evangelista , Madonna and Kylie have all been sporting those unmistakable barrel curls . |
| 21 | He has got that little bit of alertness and determination that the likes of Rideout , Cottee and Johnston have all been lacking . |
| 22 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 23 | So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring . |
| 24 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 25 | It is a responsibility that has resulted in the revival of the importance of the data processing department — a shift not lost on Microsoft Corp , Lotus Development Corp and Borland International Inc which have all been attempting to play down their ‘ shrink wrapped ’ status with corporate licensing deals and the like . |
| 26 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 27 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 28 | That is why we have all been doing it , von Weizsacker , Theo Kordt in London , his brother Erich in Berlin , Canaris , Carl Burckhardt , Dahlerus , Wenner-Gren . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 30 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |