Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank was completely under the control of Mr Abdić and his colleagues , and apparently complied with all their wishes . |
| 2 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 3 | Jampa Ngodrup apparently confessed to all charges . |
| 4 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 5 | That , and Karajan the survivor , the man stricken with illness who none the less appeared against all the odds to conduct a musically towering , spiritually searching account of Brahms 's First Symphony , as he did in London , to great and deep-felt acclaim , in the autumn of 1988 . |
| 6 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
| 7 | ‘ We just got into all the old flicks from the Seventies , ’ says Kool-Tee . |
| 8 | When the former ruling order of Ethiopia defined itself as Amhara , it thus imposed on all other Ethiopians non-Amharaness . |
| 9 | Systematically pushed to the margins in the labour market , past the household power of active parenthood , soon deprived of all but the trimmings of public influence , are they not all victims in the age-bound society of the contemporary West ? |
| 10 | 'E just looked at all the people for a minute without saying anythink . |
| 11 | No because then , I just looked over all those things that I went and . |
| 12 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 13 | The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again . |
| 14 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 15 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 16 | OK , so you 're still a little fazed by all this post-whatever US noise-grunge-new-wave-of-alternative-corporate-underground-anarcho-core-punk malarkey . |
| 17 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 18 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 19 | Largely established during the colonial era , it hardly changed at all after independence . |
| 20 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 21 | Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper . |
| 22 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 23 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 24 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 25 | Firmly bandaged , it hardly protested at all . |
| 26 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 27 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 28 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 29 | Lou continued to be the nearest he had to a first and real love and she still went to all the broadcasts and visited Pinewood for every film , sitting on her own canvas chair , sometimes by herself , frequently with her sister Daisy , of whom Ken himself was still very fond . |
| 30 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |