Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that . |
| 2 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 3 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 4 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 5 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 6 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 7 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 8 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 9 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 10 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 11 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 12 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
| 13 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 14 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
| 15 | They had been through all this before . |
| 16 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 17 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 18 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 19 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 20 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 21 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |