Example sentences of "[pron] had all been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 2 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 3 | H.G. Wells wrote a story about a traveller in South America coming across a community of people who had all been born blind . |
| 4 | The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) reported on Oct. 22 the discovery of a mass grave near the Soviet border , containing the remains of about 5,000 monks who had all been shot in the head , apparently on Stalin 's orders under the Choybalsan regime ( 1936-52 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 6 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 7 | For we had all been fooled , even the Lebanese themselves . |
| 8 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 9 | We had all been brought up to invest our hopes and future in the ‘ western way of life ’ and were learning to develop thick skins against the blatant institutionalized and individual racism we faced every day . |
| 10 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 11 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 12 | One I remember vividly was when we had all been celebrating someone 's 21st birthday ( how young we all were ! ) . |
| 13 | Understandably , the conversation turned to the events of the past couple of weeks , in which they had all been involved . |
| 14 | Her wardrobes of course , were bulging with dresses but , apart from the evening gowns she had had made especially for Christmas , they had all been worn at least once before . |
| 15 | Deferential coppers were a thing of the past ; they had all been conscripted into the House of Commons ' police . |
| 16 | Suddenly , above the shouting , shots and noise of battle , the neighing of horses , creaking wheels and ringing harness , came the sound they had all been dreading : the thin , sharp crackle of ice giving way under strain . |
| 17 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 18 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 19 | They had all been seen in the vicinity of the turnpike and the nearby Duncan Woods . |
| 20 | When they had all been seen to , and no call had come from the complex , Dr Rafaelo summoned Shelley to follow him . |
| 21 | This was why they had all been calling him ‘ sir ’ . |
| 22 | They had all been drinking , but she felt safer with them than alone . |
| 23 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 24 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 25 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 26 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 27 | However , the government claimed that no militias remained in Kabul , as they had all been absorbed into the regime 's regular army . |
| 28 | So saying , disdainfully Lexandro left the scriptory and returned to his small cell to recite in private one of the liturgies they had all been taught . |
| 29 | On the flickering screen , one of the cell-like doors was ajar , yet he was sure they had all been shut . |
| 30 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |