Example sentences of "have been [adv] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 3 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 4 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 5 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 6 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 7 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 8 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 9 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 10 | And then I realized it might not have been so all of a sudden at that . |
| 11 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 12 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 13 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 14 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 15 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 16 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 17 | He may have been there all night . ’ |
| 18 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 19 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 20 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 21 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 22 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 23 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 24 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 25 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 26 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 27 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 28 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 29 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 30 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |