Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 2 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 3 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 4 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 5 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 6 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 7 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 8 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 9 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 10 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 11 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 12 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 13 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 14 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 15 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 16 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 17 | Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow . |
| 18 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 19 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 20 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 21 | All he does is fish all day long . |
| 22 | We 've got our one of our ex-bosses , he er when he got the job is the first thing he does is paint all the walls and put all his certificates up ! |
| 23 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 24 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 26 | I think he 's a right lying git , I could n't , he 's been a right lying git , he 's been saying all the things that he 's supposed to say instead of the truth |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been offered all sorts of consultancies at lots of London hospitals . ’ |
| 28 | He 's mending car , he 's been working all day and now he 's mending car |
| 29 | Yeah , he 's been working all day Paul |
| 30 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |