Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |
| 3 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 4 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 5 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 6 | ‘ Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again . |
| 7 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 8 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 9 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 10 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 11 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 12 | When Jesus appeared after his resurrection to his disciples in Galilee , he told them , ‘ I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth . ’ |