Example sentences of "[been] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 2 | It had been all those things , it had started as all those things , but now it was work and love . |
| 3 | He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’ |
| 4 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 5 | ‘ We know that , stupid , but where have you been all night ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Where 've you been all my life , madam ? ’ |
| 8 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 9 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 10 | Encounters have been all the rage of this Italian election campaign — only the 12th since the republic 's first in 1948 . |
| 11 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 12 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 13 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 14 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 15 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 16 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 17 | If it 's true and he is alive where has he been all this time ? |
| 18 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 19 | Where 's it been all these years ? |
| 20 | Perhaps his initial success should n't have been all that surprising for he comes of good rugby stock . |
| 21 | Having been all this time contented about his welfare , now that her leaving was fixed and certain , she had begun to have misgivings . |
| 22 | But the year has n't been all doom and gloom . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 24 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 25 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 26 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 27 | Since then , those had been all the places she 'd known . |
| 28 | ‘ Billy 's never been all that interested in women , Annie , ’ she replied . |
| 29 | And this is strange because he has been all his working life that representative of law and order , a dedicated policeman . |
| 30 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |