Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] all [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as their political and moral equals by signing an agreement which committed them all to the same values . |
| 2 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 3 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
| 4 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 5 | With the aid of many ‘ outside ’ advisers , both professional and amateur , we scrutinised them all in the 2 weeks of sorting . |
| 6 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 7 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 8 | Rommel arrived at Alamein , the Russians drove the Germans out of Russia , English and American troops landed on the continent , whole German cities were razed to the ground in one night : I heard it all from the same patch of sand , four hundred yards long by a hundred wide in the middle of a Silesian Pine forest . |
| 9 | That was the one that started it all at the 1976 Montreal Olympics . |
| 10 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
| 13 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 14 | The DDI reminded them all of the secret police who had run East Germany with an iron fist . |
| 15 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 16 | Death had them , had them all by the short and curlies . |
| 17 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |