Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Like everyone else , I 'd come to Hawaii for the waves , but some clandestine part of me had been plotting all along to make love on the beach beneath a palm tree . |
| 4 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 5 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 6 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 15 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 16 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 17 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 21 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 22 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 23 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 24 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |
| 25 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 26 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 27 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 28 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |