Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 2 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 3 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 4 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 5 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts . |
| 10 | I 've been knuckling down all the time . |
| 11 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 12 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 13 | And finally we return you to America to party on down with those incredibly nice chaps from TEENAGE FAN CLUB , who have been winning over all and sundry with their boyish charm , roguish antics and , occasionally , pop music . |
| 14 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 15 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 16 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 17 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 18 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |