Example sentences of "been all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’ |
| 2 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 3 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 4 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 5 | ‘ Where have you been all day ? ’ |
| 6 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 7 | ‘ Where have you been all afternoon then ? ’ |
| 8 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 9 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 10 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 11 | Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood . |
| 12 | ‘ We know that , stupid , but where have you been all night ? ’ |
| 13 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 14 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 15 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 16 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 17 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 19 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 20 | I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions . |
| 21 | There 's been all sorts of problems with regard to paying cleaner 's wages , because I become her employer , |
| 22 | ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’ |
| 23 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 24 | But the year has n't been all doom and gloom . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 26 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 27 | Busy is something Graham Myers has been all season with all Forest injuries Ward with a free kick gets it clear straight to Thomson though Greyson Thomson Gemmell closes down the room immed that 's a very good ball . |
| 28 | He had been all kinds of fool . |
| 29 | It 's been all hands to the deck at this tyre fitters . |
| 30 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |