Example sentences of "been [verb] all the " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time .
8 In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain .
9 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 .
10 Who 's been tooling all the parts ?
11 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 .
12 It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly .
13 But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same .
14 It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip .
15 One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Been waiting all the morning for a bit of attention from my only daughter , not much for a sick mother to ask , is it ? ’
19 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 .
20 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
21 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 .
22 But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said .
23 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 .
24 He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else .
25 The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash .
26 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
27 We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards .
28 And I 've been getting all the
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 I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’
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