Example sentences of "all [noun sg] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 2 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 3 | All night he had been thinking : I 've been sleeping over Mosse 's dead body . |
| 4 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 5 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |