Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 2 | She had been all but asleep and possibly incoherent . |
| 3 | It had been all she could do , as she wrote to Ellen : |
| 4 | Yesterday morning it had been all right . |
| 5 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 6 | Perhaps it had been all in her imagination , fuelled by her own desires . |
| 7 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 8 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 9 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |