Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 2 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 3 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 4 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 5 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 6 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 7 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 8 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been calling all afternoon , ’ he told her , ‘ There 's a faculty dinner . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been working all night and I 'm worn out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been working all night to get our ricks covered . |
| 12 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 13 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 14 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 15 | I have been plotting all morning how to get you back again . |
| 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 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 18 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 19 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 22 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 23 | She looked like a girl who had been tripping all night . |
| 24 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 25 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 26 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 27 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 28 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 29 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 30 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |