Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] all [art] " in BNC.

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1 One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases .
2 It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another .
6 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 .
7 Even if they had been trying all the years between .
8 Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her .
9 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
10 Hector , who had been whining all the while , now crept back on to the bed and pushed his nose under the veined hand resting on the coverlet .
11 They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day .
12 The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor .
13 I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it !
14 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
15 ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ?
16 And I 've been getting all the
17 ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them .
18 I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’
19 And tell me what you 've been doing all the week
20 I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’
21 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
22 That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ?
23 No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James .
24 In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain .
25 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
26 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 .
27 I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper .
28 ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len .
29 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
30 ‘ She 's been crying all the time .
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