Example sentences of "she [verb] [been] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 2 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 3 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 4 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 10 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 12 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 13 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 14 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 15 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 16 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She 's been crying all the time . |
| 18 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 19 | I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper . |