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

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1 But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries .
2 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 .
3 But er , we , we got through it all , did n't we ?
4 Wentworth-Day , who lived through it all , describes the experience :
5 My grandad fought for them all his life , but the things you 're talking about , they 're only scratching the surface . ’
6 Giggs and Sharpe were full of running , skill and ideas and McClair rejoiced in it all , tripling his season 's output with a double , laying on a goal for Hughes and figuring in half-a-dozen close calls .
7 The Madonna presided over it all , high and serene above the altar , dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery .
8 Her train of thought stopped right there , and she sat up suddenly , as a number of things occurred to her all at once .
9 Rock Gospel vibrated through us all , the light from behind the altar silhouetting the blackness of the men 's skins .
10 It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’
11 If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ .
12 In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous !
13 The thought came to them all ; ‘ While you live , Duart ! ’
14 What she was doing seemed to her all utterly natural .
15 She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’
16 Then , restraining Loppe with a light hand , she fetched wine and a platter for Nicholas , and poured for them all before she sat down herself .
17 Boeing paid for it all , and perhaps it would be well for the more cynically-minded who believe aircraft manufacturers are only in the business to make money to remember that Boeing had no legal obligation to contribute a single penny .
18 What , then , happened to them all ?
19 Do n't know what happened to it all .
20 He nodded to them all , and swept from the room .
21 ‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’
22 He scrubbed and scrubbed till it all come off did n't he ?
23 He agreed with it all , of course , to ingratiate himself , looking deep into her large , green eyes all the while .
24 It was this Hope that interfered with it all .
25 I prayed for us all in the family prayer :
26 This alerted Eva , and she arranged for them all to go out for supper .
27 He arranged for us all to have a drink with him at The Roebuck .
28 Rain walked past them all , turned left and went through open glass doors to a terrace .
29 Smallfry walked with him all the way to the playground , where the other children bunched together in little groups to stare at the absentee and his beautiful mother .
30 Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon .
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