Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
2 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
3 | I am sure de Macon had his hand on his dagger hilt and I realised for all they knew I could be a member of the Luciferi . |
4 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
5 | ‘ I got into all this sports stuff after Jerry was born , ’ Betty had told her . |
6 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
7 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
8 | And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people . |
9 | oh I trained in all of these things yes |
10 | I did n't entirely freak out , I just dabbled : I dabbled in all sorts of things . ’ |
11 | It 's what I used for all that weird Eno-esque synth stuff over Morrissey 's Last Of The Famous International Playboys single . |
12 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
13 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
14 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
15 | But I came through all that and thought , I 'm never going to feel guilty about how I feel again , or what I want to do . |
16 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
17 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
18 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
19 | Is it because I studied in your country — or is it because I studied at all ? ’ |
20 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
21 | I piped with all the passion of a Cartland virgin ( which indeed I was , mentally if not technically ) . |
22 | And I paid after all forty six . |
23 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
24 | I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines . |
25 | I prayed for all the King 's Kids in their work places . |
26 | So I stuck to all the side dishes , which were they were very nice . |
27 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
28 | I landed on all fours , stayed on all fours , then scampered off into the blackness . |
29 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
30 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Mr Shepherd , ‘ I heard about all that . |