Example sentences of "all [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Silence for a moment , while we all gazed meditatively at the floor .
2 On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage .
3 Paul Mellon 's generosity to educational , artistic and environmental causes is astonishing over $600 million in all made primarily through the Paul Mellon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation .
4 We all clustered silently by the door until a chilling moan from Mandeville and a despairing shout of ‘ Oh , no ! ’ sent us hurrying into the church .
5 For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s .
6 What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement .
7 There were only four women at the time but we all believed firmly in the need to organize women .
8 I do not know whether the other two also had prior knowledge , but no one gave any indication to this effect as we all filed silently to the Cabinet Room .
9 Other members of their families were upstairs dancing , and afterwards they all walked home in a group .
10 Her sinuses were all gummed together in a lump between her eyes .
11 We all worked hard at the lesson , no time wasted .
12 For instance , we raised enough money for the materials to build a decent house for a single mother who was living in a hut made of cardboard and we all worked together on the construction .
13 We all looked anxiously towards the platform .
14 Before the match we all looked quizzically at the pitch .
15 Better not get involved in that one ; instead , two offstage fielders were appointed and all went well on the night .
16 We 're sure club members will have worked very hard to make this event a great success and hope all went well on the day !
17 All went well for the outing until at one particularly reverent moment , the young son of the party stood on his seat and inquired with a loud voice : ‘ Dad , where are all the hypocrites ? ’
18 At first all went well with the beetles .
19 If all went well with the Air Services package agreed in June 1992 , EEC airlines would be able to fly between whatever airports in different countries within the Community they chose ( subject only to complying with safety and noise standards and assuming the availability of ground and air space ) and charging the economic fares they chose .
20 We all went often to the cinema ; it was the great escape , and we drew comfort from , and identified with , films which ennobled or sentimentalised our situation — films such as One of our Aircraft is Missing , The Way to the Stars , and Mrs Miniver .
21 Skipper Brian Robson , Lee Sharpe , Giggs , and Gary Pallister , all went close to an equaliser but United 's two best chances fell to the mercurial Cantona .
22 It all took just over a bio-day , after which we drifted down from the Valve and touched ground at the spaceport .
23 so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see .
24 There was smoke down there but not too much and with the aid of his torch he had no difficulty in locating the three missing men , all huddled shapelessly in a corner .
25 Jane Holt 's , Grimsdale 's and police evidence all pointed strongly to the tailor 's guilt .
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