Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’ |
| 2 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 3 | Many of these people have been rejected all their lives . |
| 4 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 5 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 6 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 7 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 8 | ‘ I have been drinking all my life , ’ explained Lili . |
| 9 | When Jesus appeared after his resurrection to his disciples in Galilee , he told them , ‘ I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth . ’ |
| 10 | He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun . |
| 11 | I have been plotting all morning how to get you back again . |
| 12 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 13 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 14 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 15 | And I discover , to my horror , that I am slowly becoming what I have been claiming all this time to be . |
| 16 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 17 | ‘ So , you have been visiting all your ladies in the neighbourhood ? ’ |
| 18 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 19 | Until these issues have been resolved all patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy should be regarded as at risk of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism . |
| 20 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 21 | We would urge you very strongly to er put a deadline er on receipt of er further objections by tomorrow sir but some of these proofs have been missing all of the discussion and they are literally months past their original fixture date . |
| 22 | No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James . |
| 23 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 24 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |