Example sentences of "have been [adv] all the " in BNC.

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1 From there it has been downhill all the way .
2 Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams .
3 It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat .
4 But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time .
5 That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time !
6 It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first .
7 It could have been there all the time .
8 ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened .
9 From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way .
10 It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van .
11 But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ?
12 Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background .
13 The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before .
14 But the question had been there all the time .
15 It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling .
16 She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then .
17 Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm .
18 She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time .
19 No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well
20 I 've been here all the time .
21 ‘ The buildings have been there all the time on the backcloth but they 'll only show up when lit , and the alcove , for Act One , will be altered thus . ’
22 Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time .
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