Example sentences of "[pers pn] have all [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 2 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 3 | We were all asked to sit down — which was absolutely unheard of — and then he said , ‘ Well , I expect you 've all been wondering how you got here … . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 7 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 8 | Preston and London East are already there ( CONGRATULATIONS ! ) and I know you have all been working hard to ensure the National Assessment goes well at the end of November . |
| 9 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 10 | Actress Susan Hampshire added : ‘ It 's something that we 'd all been led to expect . ’ |
| 11 | The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer . |
| 12 | I supported the lifting of sanctions , but the avalanche of death and blood has made me realise we 've all been conned ’ . |
| 13 | Being an inveterate story-teller , Mira is quick to remark on the degenerate effect the dominance of the media has on personal development : ‘ Gradually all our secret treasures have been removed and we 've all been made to share the same abstracted and alienating public knowledge ’ ( 111 ) . |
| 14 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 15 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 16 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 17 | We 've all been overtaken by someone going too fast and too close to the vehicle in front . ’ |
| 18 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 19 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 20 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 21 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 've all been longing to see him . |
| 23 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 24 | For we had all been fooled , even the Lebanese themselves . |
| 25 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 26 | We had all been brought up to invest our hopes and future in the ‘ western way of life ’ and were learning to develop thick skins against the blatant institutionalized and individual racism we faced every day . |
| 27 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 28 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 29 | One I remember vividly was when we had all been celebrating someone 's 21st birthday ( how young we all were ! ) . |
| 30 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |