Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 This has not been at all easy .
2 Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt .
3 Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur .
4 It had not been at all like that .
5 I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before .
6 His slumber had not been at all restful .
7 So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable .
8 But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth .
9 It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place .
10 Some of the statements of Mrs Thatcher and some of her ministers have not been at all helpful .
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