Example sentences of "have been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 3 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 4 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |
| 5 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 6 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 7 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 8 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 9 | The procedure adopted has been to allow all models to have six degrees of freedom with respect to their adjoining member . |
| 10 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 11 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 12 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 13 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 14 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 15 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You give the impression of a man who has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege . ’ |
| 18 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 19 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 20 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 21 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 22 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 23 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 24 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 25 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 26 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 27 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 28 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 29 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 30 | 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 . |