Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 2 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 3 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 6 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 7 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 8 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 9 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 10 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 12 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 13 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 14 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 15 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 16 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 17 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 18 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 19 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 20 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 21 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 22 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 23 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 24 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 25 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 26 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 27 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 28 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 29 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 30 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |