Example sentences of "took [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 2 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 3 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 4 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 5 | It took me all day . |
| 6 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 7 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 8 | Then he took them all to Mexico . |
| 9 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 10 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 11 | Luckily the local hairdresser 's took them all so he did n't have to buy them . |
| 12 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 13 | Yet Neil Kinnock nearly took them all the way . |
| 14 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 15 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 16 | The river took them all away . |
| 17 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 18 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 19 | He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted . |
| 20 | Being , as he said , temporarily flush , he took them all for a plate of spaghetti in a ‘ trat ’ in Mondano . |
| 21 | And took them all away . |
| 22 | Peace took them all prisoner . |
| 23 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 24 | took them all out . |
| 25 | Took them all out ? |
| 26 | Cos , that 's right we took , we took them all skating when Mandy was twelve . |
| 27 | Oh we took them all the while see . |
| 28 | Oh we took them all upstairs . |
| 29 | I did have a load of that tops and I took them all down the . |
| 30 | And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag . |