Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 2 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 3 | It 's not been away at all . |
| 4 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 5 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 6 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 7 | Anyway , what on earth have you been up to all this time ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 9 | Andrew Hall 's back in the limelight now that the BBC is showing re-runs of Butterflies — but where has he been hiding and what has he been up to all this time ? |
| 10 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 11 | We have n't been out at all . |
| 12 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 13 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 14 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 15 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 16 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 17 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 18 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 19 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 20 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 21 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 22 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 23 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 24 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 25 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 26 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 27 | Now it must have been must n't it , a possibility , if been there at all , that he was hiding under that bed ? |
| 28 | That 's true yes , I 've never even been there at all , let alone played there . |
| 29 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
| 30 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |