Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 2 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 3 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 4 | In the course of time , because they developed from human imagination to which there are no limits , the powers ascribed to the first ‘ gods ’ became exaggerated beyond all reason . |
| 5 | Alternatively , they lost so much money so frequently on them that they became disillusioned with all options and by proxy any other financial instruments . |
| 6 | Mediators also lack self-assurance , something that Jesus promised to give to all those who follow him . |
| 7 | The comparatively large sums involved conferred on all these agencies a substantial power of patronage over recipient institutions . |
| 8 | Brian tried to think about all those theories — so abstruse to him — which maintained that unloved children became unloving mothers , abused children turned into abusers of their own offspring . |
| 9 | So really , if we got shot of all that cos really , you want to make another hatch |
| 10 | But none of that seemed to matter at all . |
| 11 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 12 | Yes I 'd forgotten about all that . |
| 13 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 14 | I 'd said after all I 've had done to me I said you 've caught 'em , I 'll prosecute . |
| 15 | Maeda came to hear of all this : his advice was to go ahead with independence . |
| 16 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 17 | ‘ It meant that I 'd got through all my policies … [ they ] all had a little bit of fun and expression and there was no change in policy . |
| 18 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 19 | And as it was I could see him and I called him and he looked over and he saw me and he came dashing across all the gardens . |
| 20 | If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter . |
| 21 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 22 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 23 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |
| 24 | Nomes came running from all corners of the quarry . |
| 25 | Tammuz made hir wait until SHe 'd wriggled through all the tables to the door . |
| 26 | A stove in the corner of the little room was giving out great waves of heat and there was the smell of leather , sweat and cigar smoke which seemed to hang in all German guard-rooms . |
| 27 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 28 | She 'd gone through all the usual phases : rock fan magazines , writing to film stars , sometimes getting back a photo with a printed signature , usually not . |
| 29 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 30 | But my Edna could n't get over the fact that sh she 'd gone through all that |