Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I started to listen to all the stuff , I thought I 'd be sick of everything . |
| 2 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 3 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 4 | I had to look through all the rest and take what I wanted . |
| 5 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 6 | Tammuz made hir wait until SHe 'd wriggled through all the tables to the door . |
| 7 | She 'd gone through all the usual phases : rock fan magazines , writing to film stars , sometimes getting back a photo with a printed signature , usually not . |
| 8 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said again , and the floodgates really opened , and she began to cry for all the bewilderment of feelings he had caused in her . |
| 10 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 11 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 12 | She had battled against all the odds to give that girl everything she could possibly want . |
| 13 | Stunned by the sensation , she had to search for all the willpower she possessed not to let her reaction show in her expression . |
| 14 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 15 | Long ago she had retreated from all the suffering into her own world . |
| 16 | Nora was relieved at this return of monetary caution ; it supplied the motif she had missed in all the previous talk . |
| 17 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 18 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |
| 19 | That had been the start of their friendship with Simon , who had joined in all the social events of the group that summer . |
| 20 | I did feel that , by the end of the work , the language had remained a little over-simplistic , perhaps patronisingly so , to anyone who had worked through all the processes involved in this weighty work . |
| 21 | But she still did not realize how unnecessary it was to attend such events , and she continued to go to all the scheduled treats . |
| 22 | You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America . |
| 23 | You see the thing is you see I mean wh wh when this law came out , LAUTRO and all that business came out that , and best advice and all this sort of thing you had to go through all the finances and what people earned and all that sort of thing . |
| 24 | We got rid of all the rubbish , put it in and started packing and erm about five minutes later the man from next door came out . |
| 25 | So Wendy came on the Wednesday and we got going with all the office work here . |
| 26 | ‘ Er , ’ Gurder said , ‘ we did look in all the rooms , did n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | Only thirty-nine of the schemes they examined conformed to all the conditions . |
| 28 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 29 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 30 | And as it was I could see him and I called him and he looked over and he saw me and he came dashing across all the gardens . |