Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] all [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 2 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 3 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 4 | Now I , I 'd got all sorts of alternatives to buy . |
| 5 | I DECIDED TO PUT ALL SECTIONS OF THE LAKE AND RIVER SYSTEMS IN THE BACKGROUND |
| 6 | The members of it I knew had all sorts of behaviour , public and private . |
| 7 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 8 | I had read all manner of learned papers and cover stories in American news magazines talking of the ‘ Dawn of the Pacific Age ’ and suchlike : so why not go where that dawn actually happens ? |
| 9 | ‘ I had tried all kinds of diets , but I did n't have a weight problem — I had a food problem . |
| 10 | The fact that everybody around me looked and sounded completely different from myself was worrying and disconcerting ; I wanted to shed all semblances of my past civilian life and be assimilated totally into the system of the Legion . |
| 11 | Whatever , she 'd ruined all chance of that now , Fabia realised that . |
| 12 | Already , she 'd heard all kinds of rustlings and scufflings from the floor above . |
| 13 | She turned away disconsolately , certain she 'd lost all chance of his help in finding Corosini . |
| 14 | When you began to make all sort of when c contacts began to be made between erm you and South Wales in terms of support |
| 15 | Suddenly , she began to hear all sorts of sounds , footsteps and slitherings . |
| 16 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 17 | With the light of morning she just could n't allow herself to believe , as she fully had last night after his phone call , that she had blown all chance of an interview , and Fabia sipped her coffee and wondered — how ? |
| 18 | She had lost all sense of time ; she still dressed in the fashions of the late 1880s . |
| 19 | Molly felt she had lost all control of the situation and was only anxious to withdraw from it . |
| 20 | Many hours later — she had lost all track of time and had fallen asleep — she had again been roughly shaken as her hiding-place was opened up and its contents removed . |
| 21 | She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white ! |
| 22 | She had bought all kinds of food for a dinner party . |
| 23 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 24 | They had examined all aspects of his previous contractual arrangements ‘ and were satisfied with the explanations given ’ , said a joint statement . |
| 25 | They had examined all aspects of his previous contractual arrangements ‘ and were satisfied with the explanations given ’ , said a joint statement . |
| 26 | Consequently many students , by the final year in particular , felt that they had lost all hope of making sense of the subject or getting to grips with the work . |
| 27 | They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far . |
| 28 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 29 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 30 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |