Example sentences of "all of [pers pn] had been " in BNC.

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1 The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor .
2 All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool .
3 The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface .
4 All of them had been in there , seeing to their charges .
5 Before they became redundant some three years earlier , all of them had been economically active and in full-time employment .
6 Whatever sexual imaginings he 'd shaped in the darkness — Judith 's face , Judith 's breasts , belly , sex — all of them had been an illusion .
7 The prior of the Austin canons of Launde , in Leicestershire , followed these into captivity , and shortly all of them had been put to death for treason .
8 Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif ( whose relatives owned two of the four co-operatives implicated — see p. 38438 ) and Interior Minister Choudhry Shujat Hussain had admitted to receiving loans but said that all of them had been repaid .
9 They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry .
10 There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary .
11 His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him .
12 All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had .
13 All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it .
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