Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aims of the new mental health task force , set up in January to monitor the mental health service modernisation programme ( p 000 ) , seem sensible , but if central data on the programme had been collected all along the team would not now have to go to the districts for information . |
| 2 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 3 | The identifying symbols had been placed all over her dress , and included one in an area which seemed anatomically surprising . |
| 4 | Almost concurrently , a report came from Bombay that the Odonata had been observed all over India , feeding on the corpses of Parsis . |
| 5 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 6 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 7 | Now I knew the king was in residence because his gold and leopard standards had been planted all around the entrance . |
| 8 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |