Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] all the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor .
2 I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it !
3 ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ?
4 ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them .
5 I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’
6 And tell me what you 've been doing all the week
7 I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’
8 He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One .
9 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
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 He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun .
12 They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process .
13 No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James .
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