Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 2 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 3 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 4 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 5 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 6 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 7 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 8 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 9 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 10 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 11 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 12 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 13 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 14 | You 've been round to all the branches ? |
| 15 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 16 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 17 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 19 | Erm on the audit side both Karen and I have been round to all the branches in order to deal with our old equipment . |
| 20 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 21 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |