Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 But now he did n't think he 'd been harsh at all .
2 There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day .
3 The archaic heritage which Freud postulated was innate in all of humanity , not just the Jews , and is of phylogenetic origin ; it is not the same as the ontogenetic conflicts of the individual , although it is analogous to such conflicts in the way its effects are to be grasped and understood .
4 That moment in the courtyard when their eyes had met had been real after all !
5 The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris .
6 Frumentarii , both cavalry decurions , for instance , are known to have served at Tiffen and Feldkirchen in the mining district of Noricum , while an official bearing the title immunis consularis curas agens vico Saloduro is recorded from Solothurn near Augst ; as an immunis he had been relieved of all other military duties by the provincial governor in order to oversee the village community of the Vicus Salodurus .
7 His hunch had been right after all .
8 So , after travelling half round Christendom , this small problem finally had an acceptable solution , and Anselm had been right after all , against the views of both pope and Curia .
9 Gradually Louisa began to wonder whether her father had been right after all , whether she had been as unwise as he claimed to shut herself away in this sequestered place .
10 Emilia Frere had been right after all .
11 Kronweiser had been right after all .
12 What stories he had beaten the great Stanford Roberts on , or even whether Stanford Roberts had been great after all ?
13 Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution .
14 Even if the policies of successive governments since World War II had been successful in all respects , would we now be in a different situation fiscally and socially ?
15 When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all .
16 The two men were enjoying a condition of harmony which had been unknown in all the previous years .
17 From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth .
18 The junior church , who had been instrumental in all the Christmas activities , were now looking for teachers .
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