Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 2 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 3 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 4 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 5 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 6 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 7 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 8 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 9 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |
| 10 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 11 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 12 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 13 | ‘ Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again . |
| 14 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 15 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 16 | He and Henry had been going all their grown-up lives to the British Transport Museum in Clapham , running their fingers over the polished wheels , regretting the end of brass fitments , and taking in the beauty of the fish-net luggage racks . |