Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [v-ing] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 2 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 3 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 4 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 5 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 6 | Tom 's quick testing of her tendon reflexes revealed their characteristic briskness , and both the medical professionals realised that the condition was progressing , when they had been hoping against all the evidence that it would not . |
| 7 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |