Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] all " in BNC.

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1 And you 've been eating it all this time !
2 That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week .
3 I 've been using it all the time .
4 If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows :
5 I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week .
6 It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all .
7 You 've been hurrying me all the way . "
8 The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando .
9 My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening .
10 She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life .
11 Most people imagine that they are fairly competent communicators ; adults have been doing it all their lives !
12 And we have been doing it all our lives .
13 The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ .
14 You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’
15 He 'd been doing it all evening .
16 You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life .
17 Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway .
18 Been doing it all week so I might as well get it over all in one week , like .
19 Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson .
20 Lorne 's been balling me all day .
21 In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life .
22 I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it .
23 I 've been taking them all the time .
24 For some years now Fiji have been playing the sevens tournaments of the world and have been winning them all .
25 And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor ,
26 I 've been spotting them all evening .
27 He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’
28 Geoffrey 's just been telling me all about it .
29 ‘ Chico 's been telling me all kinds of interesting stuff . ’
30 ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’
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