Example sentences of "everything had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed . |
| 2 | Wexford was n't inclined to be sentimental over the Cullams but he could n't help being faintly touched that they who were poor in everything had been affluent , extravagant and imaginative in one respect . |
| 3 | So , everything had been arranged . |
| 4 | All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right . |
| 5 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 6 | But no one had any suggestions ; almost everything had been tried , or asked for , or abandoned . |
| 7 | Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine . |
| 8 | Everything had been cleaned and tidied and there were no stains on the polished floor to show where his life had pumped out . |
| 9 | I cycled to school one morning through streets littered with glass , and past a little Nonconformist chapel , in which everything had been destroyed except the far wall with its multi-coloured and scrolled message ‘ God is Love ’ . |
| 10 | Everything had been different before the war . |
| 11 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 12 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 13 | Everything had been sucked out of it . |
| 14 | The funeral was over ; Paul need not trouble to come down , everything had been arranged ; Colonel Carteret , who lodged with her , had been most kind , and had seen to everything . |
| 15 | Everything had been tried : and everything had failed . |
| 16 | Everything had been bad , but at least it had been a kind of understandable , nome-sized badness . |
| 17 | After everything had been checked Diana ordered the contents to be transferred to plastic dustbin liners . |
| 18 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 19 | Once everything had been checked I filled the vat with water and switched the pump on . |
| 20 | THE THIRD Test on the 1974–75 tour was at Sydney and everything had been going well . |
| 21 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 22 | They often rode for hours in contented silence , remembering the good years behind them when everything had been simple and summer seemed to last for ever . |
| 23 | Everything had been fine until the nightmares . |
| 24 | As it was , when we eventually returned , we found everything had been destroyed — houses , crops , animals . |
| 25 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 26 | Everything had been laid on for their comfort . |
| 27 | Everything had been very still . |
| 28 | The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office . |
| 29 | Everything had been either buried or blown out of them . |
| 30 | Probably everything had been kept ready for weeks , prepared as soon as Ruth got here . |