Example sentences of "they have all [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 2 | I heard they 'd all been killed . |
| 3 | They 'd all been made by small independent producers from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire and Devon . |
| 4 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 5 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 6 | I would n't bother — they 've all been done . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They 've all been thinking , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've all been fumigated quite properly under Ministry supervision . ’ |
| 9 | They 've all been sent elsewhere . |
| 10 | They 've all been released without charged . |
| 11 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 12 | Understandably , the conversation turned to the events of the past couple of weeks , in which they had all been involved . |
| 13 | Her wardrobes of course , were bulging with dresses but , apart from the evening gowns she had had made especially for Christmas , they had all been worn at least once before . |
| 14 | Deferential coppers were a thing of the past ; they had all been conscripted into the House of Commons ' police . |
| 15 | Suddenly , above the shouting , shots and noise of battle , the neighing of horses , creaking wheels and ringing harness , came the sound they had all been dreading : the thin , sharp crackle of ice giving way under strain . |
| 16 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 17 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 18 | They had all been seen in the vicinity of the turnpike and the nearby Duncan Woods . |
| 19 | When they had all been seen to , and no call had come from the complex , Dr Rafaelo summoned Shelley to follow him . |
| 20 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 21 | They had all been drinking , but she felt safer with them than alone . |
| 22 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 23 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 24 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 25 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 26 | However , the government claimed that no militias remained in Kabul , as they had all been absorbed into the regime 's regular army . |
| 27 | So saying , disdainfully Lexandro left the scriptory and returned to his small cell to recite in private one of the liturgies they had all been taught . |
| 28 | On the flickering screen , one of the cell-like doors was ajar , yet he was sure they had all been shut . |
| 29 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |
| 30 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |