Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] all been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory . |
| 2 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I know now that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do with my — ’ |
| 4 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 5 | ‘ You were very tired , ’ Adam said , ‘ and we 've all been worried about Elinor . ’ |
| 6 | We 've all been worried about her . |
| 7 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 8 | One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels . |
| 9 | But the truth is , we have all been unwell , I 'm sure my wife will have told you , and there is so much sickness in the village — ’ |
| 10 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 11 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 14 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 15 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 16 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 17 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 18 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 19 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 20 | I 've experimented with guns , of course , both mere projectile weapons and mortars which would lob the sling-bombs , but they have all been clumsy , dangerous , slow and rather prone to blowing up . |
| 21 | I 've been lucky enough to play with several international captains — Colin Deans , Gary Callander , Finlay Calder and David Sole — and they have all been splendid leaders , different in their own ways but earning the respect of their colleagues . |
| 22 | I am sure you will be feeling that it has all been worthwhile . |
| 23 | There is no doubt in her mind that it has all been worthwhile . |
| 24 | But it had all been real . |
| 25 | But what that picture was leading me to ask was something he had quoted Plato as asking — whether it had all been worthwhile , his whole life ? |
| 26 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 27 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 28 | The president claimed that only defensive weapons had been supplied to Iran and that it had all been legal . |
| 29 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding current problems which they discussed lightly , it had all been wonderful . |