Example sentences of "have been [adv] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 3 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 4 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 5 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 6 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 7 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 8 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 9 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 10 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 11 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 12 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 13 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 14 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 15 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 16 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 17 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 18 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 19 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 20 | And then I realized it might not have been so all of a sudden at that . |
| 21 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 22 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 23 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 24 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 25 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 26 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 27 | He may have been there all night . ’ |
| 28 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 29 | Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was . |
| 30 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |