Example sentences of "have been [verb] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 2 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 3 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 6 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 7 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 8 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 9 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 10 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 11 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 12 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 13 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 14 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 15 | Hector , who had been whining all the while , now crept back on to the bed and pushed his nose under the veined hand resting on the coverlet . |
| 16 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 17 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 18 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 19 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
| 20 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 25 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |
| 26 | I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's been crying all the time . |