Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 2 | Puzzled head-scratching suddenly became all the rage . |
| 3 | ‘ Now listen , ’ Drew suddenly became all businesslike . |
| 4 | What apparently made all the difference to the price was that the clock came from a historic house , Cassiobury Park , and that it is illustrated in an important book on the craftsman — Thomas Tompion , His Life and Work by R W Symonds . |
| 5 | I spent a month at home with the children and I suddenly realized all the things that I was missing out on — watching the baby grow up , start to crawl , the first few words , things like that . |
| 6 | Even if we only got all those old tickets and things into green bags and started cleaning that out it would it would look as though we 're making some effort . |
| 7 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 8 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 9 | Only the vaguest estimates of numbers were available to HQ 5 Corps , when it suddenly found all these heterogeneous groups in its charge . |
| 10 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 11 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |
| 12 | Anyway , he only collected all these things till they got sufficient to auction them off . |
| 13 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 14 | Started in 1854 Woodchester Mansion was the brainchild of a 21 year old architect who apparently spent all his patron 's money . |
| 15 | Then in walked all these men . |
| 16 | The plane was flying the Travolta family from Florida to Maine when it suddenly lost all its electrical instruments . |
| 17 | The sponsored Superswim at Eston baths not only broke all records last year , but won world acclaim when its organisers were honoured by Rotary International . |
| 18 | Well I ca came home , I had Derek 's overalls in the the sink , they need washing on their own , and I said to Cla , so I had to go shopping this morning because Claire only worked all day yesterday so she |
| 19 | I detest Santiago de Torres , Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture , ‘ who personally blocked all possible sources of information ’ , so as not to present any obstacle to the successful removal of that shoal of piranha fish that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 20 | I suddenly felt all floppy , like Dayglo . |
| 21 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 22 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 23 | Certainly , when I watched her in the St Trinian 's films , I knew I was watching someone who not only knew all of the people I knew , but could do a wicked job of ‘ taking them off ’ ! |
| 24 | One man came in took all his clothes off , tried on a load of things and walked out in them . |
| 25 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 26 | ‘ But when Jim , who 's not noted for his sense of humour , suddenly went all angry and superior it came as a bit of a shock for her . ’ |
| 27 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 28 | So did all the associations of local authorities . |
| 29 | The old Gesamtausgabe ( 1877–1910 ) used with few exceptions only dots , and so did all the numerous editions derived from it . |
| 30 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |