Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 2 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 3 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 5 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 8 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 9 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 10 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 11 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 12 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 13 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 14 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 15 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 16 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 17 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 18 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 19 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 20 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 22 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |
| 23 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 24 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 25 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 26 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 29 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 30 | They had been dumping all their notes till then in landfill sites . ’ |