Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] for all " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 3 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 4 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 5 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 6 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 7 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 8 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 9 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |