Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] 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 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 3 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 4 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 5 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 6 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 7 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 11 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 12 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 13 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 16 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 19 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 20 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 21 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 22 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 23 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 24 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 26 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 27 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't have been running all day . |
| 29 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |