Example sentences of "have been [adv] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 2 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 3 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 4 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 5 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 11 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 12 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 15 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 16 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 17 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 18 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 19 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 20 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 21 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 22 | ‘ The buildings have been there all the time on the backcloth but they 'll only show up when lit , and the alcove , for Act One , will be altered thus . ’ |
| 23 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |