Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] all " in BNC.

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1 Or had they all planned it beforehand , for a joke — but it was silly to think that .
2 She gave a loud , bitter shout of laughter that made them all stare .
3 Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size .
4 The girls were , however , very much alike : wide-eyed , glossy-haired , with a hunch of shoulder and ease of hip that made them all the sisters they longed to be .
5 M. Lheureux plies Emma with a foretaste of false comfort : he tells her consoling stories of lost dogs which have returned to their masters despite great distances ; why , there was even one that made it all the way back to Paris from Constantinople .
6 This was a truly superb feeling and we received some good compliments , that made it all worthwhile .
7 More than 400 plants using the technology were licensed and again it was ICI-developed catalysts that made it all possible .
8 that I went home with , erm we had very good relevant local dialogue with the minister yesterday morning , simple things within twenty five miles of our experience , that made us all think very hard .
9 I was glad to hear that visited you all .
10 In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen .
11 The 12 hours that shook us all
12 I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all .
13 Hypothalamus and mid-brain glow together in radical synchronization , and above everything else — you — now a couple — feel the desire to eradicate every feeling of loss and separation , the desire to find the other that began it all .
14 He was not good at knowing when a bit of humour would go down well , but by late afternoon there was some news that cheered them all .
15 The view from her top-floor flat never failed to please her as the whole city of Branchester stretched out before her : the cathedral with its spire gleaming in the early-morning sunlight , the buildings where ancient and modern blended together harmoniously , the canal like a silver ribbon with its brightly painted barges and the Norman boundary wall that enclosed it all .
16 What kind of man are you , to steal from the hand that fed you all these years ? ’
17 In the winter that followed we all had a house together and Giorgio came to stay , and the winter after that Anna took me to Switzerland while Constanza travelled with someone in Spain .
18 Probably Tyndall took a design from each and employed Bridges to make the model that bound them all fairly convincingly together as they now stand , each fine in its way but inconsequential .
19 it it does n't ev I mean the , the , the one main item is th th that shocked us all is that is only Chris can approve the use of consultants , in any shape or form .
20 its the Japanese that started them all of
21 I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that .
22 We tried out the firm that started it all , Butlin 's .
23 That was the one that started it all at the 1976 Montreal Olympics .
24 Today for the first time Cyril Reenan allowed the cameras into his Abingdon home to see the sophisticated radio scanner that started it all
25 , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally
26 A thing that worried me all through the deliberations … was this : supposing we made all the right recommendations and supposing the Government gave effect to them in legislation , how long would it be before the judges turned everything upside down ?
27 And I mean I ca n't thank the people enough that sent them all .
28 Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage .
29 I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent .
30 He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him .
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