Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] all been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 5 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 6 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 7 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | But it had all been real . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 12 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 13 | The president claimed that only defensive weapons had been supplied to Iran and that it had all been legal . |
| 14 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding current problems which they discussed lightly , it had all been wonderful . |
| 16 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 17 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |