Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , Go West got all the publicity , but the 100 000 000 mark could have been reached by plenty of contenders in the factory . |
| 2 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 3 | Pot-growing and planting in good soil near sea level made all the difference . |
| 4 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 5 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 6 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 7 | The NRI 's cochlear implantation programme met all its first year targets and on Saturday , a purpose-built unit was officially opened by entertainer Alvin Stardust . |
| 8 | The equation made all generation , sexual or otherwise , a form of budding . |
| 9 | ‘ The high priest got all the young good-looking ones while I was left with the old fat ones . ’ |
| 10 | The car got all steamed up and misty , |
| 11 | He said they must n't , not adding that the sight of Commander Abigail on the green-painted seat made all the difference . |
| 12 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 13 | But the new album changed all that , with gutsy , chart-orientated pop music , spiced by thought-provoking lyrics . |
| 14 | As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage , for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage , there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships . |
| 15 | Ideas , materials and methodology used all tend to come into the country from outside . |
| 16 | The industry tried all sorts of things to get people interested : Rover put a traditional grille on its 800 , Ford introduced a new way to buy a car called Options and Nissan even tried selling its cars itself for a change . |
| 17 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 18 | On Feb. 6 , the US Air Force suspended all UK-based training flights after two crashes on Feb. 5 involving low-flying military jets , resulted in the deaths of three crew members . |
| 19 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 20 | But Mummy opened all the drapes and smiled and laughed when he was away . |
| 21 | And so the sight of this deeply sunburned soldier turned all heads . |
| 22 | One reviewer thought John Barleycorn ( 1914 ) ‘ the most powerful moral lesson ever conveyed in films ’ and stressed how brilliantly the ‘ selection of types ’ , the ‘ faithful depiction ’ of ‘ the underworld of sea-faring men ’ , and the very smell of the sea that the movie evoked all helped to convey the ‘ dehumanising effects of strong drink ’ . |
| 23 | The bedroom showed all the signs of Salome throwing some things into a bag in a hurry . |
| 24 | The hero-god accepted the challenge on condition that he could have the girl if he rescued her , and ordered the couple to build eight large vats and fill them with rice-beer , so that when the monster arrived all eight heads could drink at once . |
| 25 | ‘ One fan hitched all the way here , and this is what he gets . |
| 26 | The ambulance whinged all the way |
| 27 | At the same time wind scooped all his maps out of the cockpit , which was still open . |
| 28 | Strands of wool fringed all its fencing . |
| 29 | A psychologist gave an assessment of the mother/daughter relationship thus : ‘ The classic anorexia symptoms are sometimes inherited and , as Kylie 's mother was a ballerina , she would have been weight obsessed all her life . |
| 30 | A team at the university 's dermatology department examined all the 1,354 men and 2,459 women diagnosed with melanoma in Scotland over the period . |