Example sentences of "have been [verb] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 2 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 5 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 6 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 7 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 8 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 9 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 10 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 11 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 12 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 13 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 14 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 15 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 16 | The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash . |
| 17 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 18 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 19 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 20 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 21 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 22 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 23 | Hector , who had been whining all the while , now crept back on to the bed and pushed his nose under the veined hand resting on the coverlet . |
| 24 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 25 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 26 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 27 | Lloyd 's great achievement had been to weld all the factions into a united team , and doubt was expressed that Richards could maintain the unity . |
| 28 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 29 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 30 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |