Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 13 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 . |