Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] all " in BNC.

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1 But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock .
2 ‘ They 're good , and you 're getting better all the time .
3 Well they 're getting stricter all the time and the big danger is , of course , that the restrictions are too strict .
4 You know , while you 're away ironing you 're doing this all the time .
5 The ozone layers and erm the advent of carbon dioxide and these sorts of things , we 're studying this all the time to see how it affects the atmosphere , how it therefore affects our weather .
6 They 're hoping this all party approach gives them something to celebrate .
7 Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time .
8 businesses are going bust all the over place .
9 Americans still have to believe that they and their society are getting better all the time .
10 And — this is the significant point — the cars are getting better all the time .
11 By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time .
12 Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’
13 So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time .
14 You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting
15 All of us , to a greater or lesser extent , have been doing this all our lives .
16 So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day .
17 We are doing this all the time .
18 But you know , I 'm getting older all the time ( laughs ) , and the tight trousers just do n't fit me like they used . ’
19 I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster .
20 There was a long silence , broken only by the perpetual nudging of the wind , which seemed to be getting stronger all the time .
21 I 'm doing that all the time .
22 Well I 'm doing that all the time , I 'm doing it with you my love .
23 God , I 'm doing this all wrong , I 've done all this wrong .
24 And it 's just not like me , I 'd just be feeling tired all the time .
25 You know , all these things again I 'm working this all purely in key words , you follow me ?
26 I dare say you are finding this all a little hard to believe .
27 The contractions were getting stronger all the time .
28 They started to use machine guns against the crowd on the Cathedral steps , people were collapsing wounded all about me .
29 The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else .
30 The pub is staying open all day during the conference .
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