Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [adv] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 2 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 5 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 6 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |