Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 2 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 3 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 4 | Tom 's quick testing of her tendon reflexes revealed their characteristic briskness , and both the medical professionals realised that the condition was progressing , when they had been hoping against all the evidence that it would not . |
| 5 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 6 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 7 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 8 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 9 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 10 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 11 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 12 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 13 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 14 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |
| 15 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |