Example sentences of "all [pos pn] [noun] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 2 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 3 | All her fears had been of Adam dead , Adam never waking from his trance , Adam turned into an automaton . |
| 4 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 5 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 6 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 7 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 8 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |