Example sentences of "been [verb] all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 2 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 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 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 8 | There are no easy answers but If you have not already been applying all the techniques listed in this book when applying for jobs you should find that a methodical approach is more productive than previous haphazard applications . |
| 9 | Who 's been tooling all the parts ? |
| 10 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 11 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 12 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 14 | ‘ Been waiting all the morning for a bit of attention from my only daughter , not much for a sick mother to ask , is it ? ’ |
| 15 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 16 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 19 | He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun . |
| 20 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 21 | We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards . |
| 22 | And tell me what you 've been doing all the week |
| 23 | I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Has that been recording all the time ? |
| 28 | I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper . |
| 29 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them . |