Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 2 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 3 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 4 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 5 | For this up-dated version of the Romeo and Juliet story , producer Michael Poynor has assembled a large , youthful cast which has been rehearsing all summer . |
| 6 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 10 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 13 | ‘ We ca n't have been running all day . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 15 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 16 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 17 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 18 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 21 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 22 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 23 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 28 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 29 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 30 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |