Example sentences of "in all the [noun] [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 Even one of the ‘ enemy ’ admired the ‘ valour and stoutness ’ of the Cornishmen and ‘ … never in all the wars he had been in did he know the like ’ .
2 In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood .
3 In all the cases I 've seen , when the hostages have been freed they have always understood the kidnappers ’ motives , always sympathized with them .
4 I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet .
5 In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action .
6 In all the excitement I 've let the Repo Men go off-line . ’
7 In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before .
8 This new order accords with the logic of Marx 's thinking , as we have seen it in all the works we have discussed so far .
9 For example , Nobinul noticed that in all the notations we had collected , two digits were used to express ten .
10 Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
11 ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
12 All we 're asking for , as I think perhaps the council will knock it down anyway in all the letters they 've written you do n't .
13 Listen , in all the spellings you 've got here , there is none A.
14 Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent .
15 So far , in all the examples I 've given , the main yarn was a medium thickness yarn .
16 Now , as will have been noticed , in all the examples I have given , one very crucial element has been missing to make the expressions grammatical as instances of standard English — we need determiners of some sort .
17 Just weeks before her death Kelly sat with her father at the computer keyboard in her bedroom and keyed in all the arrangements she had made for her funeral .
18 Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it .
19 Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words .
20 In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry .
21 In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before .
22 Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’
23 In all the time you 've been in the flats ?
24 In all the time you 've played with us , we 've never played a Mystery with Christ in it . ’
25 Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him .
26 I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry .
27 You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft .
28 I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er
29 In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month .
30 But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home .
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