Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | I 've been good all week |
| 3 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 5 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 6 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 7 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 9 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 10 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 11 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 13 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 15 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |
| 16 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 17 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 18 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 19 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 20 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 21 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 22 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |
| 23 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 24 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 25 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 26 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 27 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 28 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 29 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 30 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |