Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.

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1 But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court .
2 A tap on the door made them all start .
3 An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones .
4 She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare .
5 The Lord God made them all . ’
6 The Lord God Made Them All .
7 The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games .
8 Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size .
9 The sound of heavy boots sliding down he crumbling bank made them all glance up .
10 Jill : Well , I made them all with four things on one of those round things .
11 An account of an ancient intra-uterine device , implanted twenty years before and never since then disturbed , made them all laugh once more .
12 It made them all laugh when Peter said that come to that , what he did with him was against the law since Jay was not yet twenty-one .
13 The lights came back on and then a thud overhead made them all jump .
14 The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly .
15 The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be .
16 Mr Cavendish adapted the hymn with great enthusiasm : My meat 's fresh and flavoursome , All creatures great and small , All things roast and barbecued , The Lord God made them all — and bang ! down came the cleaver and the blood trickled away down the special channel .
17 Polished parquet and a narrow scarlet runner made them all look the same .
18 I chucked them all off last week .
19 ‘ I probably met them all .
20 But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got .
21 ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert .
22 Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all .
23 This news , needless to say , greatly concerned them all , Douglas and the Regent in especial .
24 I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T.
25 I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions .
26 ‘ You got me all wrong , Malamute , ’ SHe said , ‘ I do n't need that kind of support from you .
27 You got me all in a lather , and then slid out from under me . ’
28 Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all .
29 Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there
30 He stuffed them all down his mouth and his nose , all his hankies ?
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