Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 2 | But the water company spokesman said letters had been sent to all tenants letting them know what was happening . |
| 3 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 4 | Two days before last Q.T. Day the Society 's representatives had an interview with the Sports Council Grant Panel — the serious situation arising from that had been explained to all teachers present and everyone was asked to take a copy of the Development Plan to study . |
| 5 | This paper had been given to all councillors by an official of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 6 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 7 | Prior to that , it had been assumed on all sides that the passing of Budget resolutions conferred sufficient interim authority , but in 1913 , in Bowles v Bank of England [ 1913 ] 1 Ch 57 , the courts decided that this was not the case and the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 resulted . |
| 8 | If a similar prohibition had been made to all film critics entering Hook , I doubt whether the reviews of Steven Spielberg 's Peter Pan adventure would have been half so bilious . |
| 9 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 10 | Since 1986 Gotti had faced three previous trials and had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 11 | An appeal by the Chairman to chambers for extra pupillage places was undertaken during May after a questionnaire had been completed by all students of the Inns of Court School of Law regarding their pupillage position . |
| 12 | The agenda included 13 draft documents , which had been prepared on all aspects of strategic and general purpose armed forces . |
| 13 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 14 | The Mail on Sunday had been launched with all sort of fancy design ideas . |
| 15 | Balbinder , who had been excluded from all deliberations about his future , had not seen his new school yet . |
| 16 | She knew the gift had been chosen in all innocence . |
| 17 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 18 | Immediately prior to his announcement , García had been suspended from all party activity for two years by the PSOE leadership . |
| 19 | Halifax and Frizingley had been invaded from all directions , the streets sprouting Chartist placards like weeds from every chink in the cobbles , demanding what John-William himself had once demanded . |
| 20 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte ) and his generals , who had been accused by all parties in the Congress of violating the Constitution , misleading the government and gross interference in political affairs , over an illegal arms shipment to Croatia . |
| 21 | He said redundancies had been reported in all sectors of industry , from textiles to manufacturing , from the media to transport . |
| 22 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 23 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 24 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |