Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 2 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 3 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 4 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 5 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 6 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 7 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 10 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 11 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 12 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 13 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |