Example sentences of "they have all been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 4 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 5 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 6 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 7 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 8 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 9 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 10 | I 've experimented with guns , of course , both mere projectile weapons and mortars which would lob the sling-bombs , but they have all been clumsy , dangerous , slow and rather prone to blowing up . |
| 11 | I 've been lucky enough to play with several international captains — Colin Deans , Gary Callander , Finlay Calder and David Sole — and they have all been splendid leaders , different in their own ways but earning the respect of their colleagues . |