Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 3 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 4 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 5 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 6 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 7 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 8 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 9 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 11 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
| 12 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 13 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 14 | For some years now Fiji have been playing the sevens tournaments of the world and have been winning them all . |
| 15 | Most people imagine that they are fairly competent communicators ; adults have been doing it all their lives ! |
| 16 | And we have been doing it all our lives . |
| 17 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 18 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |