Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientists analysed their crystal structure by measuring how the coccoliths scatter light rays and electrons and found that they all shared common features of crystal organisation throughout their history . |
| 2 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |
| 3 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 4 | Subsequent analysis by the Labour Research Department revealed that they all directed companies which had given donations totalling £1.9 million to Conservative party funds . |
| 5 | He believed that we all have an ‘ inborn social feeling ’ and an ‘ inescapable characteristic of empathy ’ . |
| 6 | His name had n't been mentioned in the Stevens household for a very long time and Rachel assumed that they all thought he was still abroad . |
| 7 | Clinton agreed and we all met in the great hall just before dusk . |
| 8 | Form 's ( 1973 ) study of car workers at various skill levels across four countries ( USA , Italy , Argentina and India ) showed that they all rejected political unionism in favour of job-related unionism concerned with raising wages and improving working conditions . |
| 9 | I forbade the entire delegation to travel in his rickety contraption , because if something happened and we all disappeared , our negotiations would have been wasted . |
| 10 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 11 | The coach arrived and we all ran for the back seat . |
| 12 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 13 | The tight links between journalists and the flourishing independent label scene , local entrepreneurs and key grass-roots venues meant that they all helped to form tastes rather than simply reacting to them . |
| 14 | And when we saw that we all started talking about what might be about to happen between these two . |
| 15 | On the last day the instructor held a test , and like the others Tim passed , but he felt that they all would have passed anyway , that the man was there to sell the machine and that no one would be allowed to fail in case they did n't recommend it . |
| 16 | I knew that we all had sold a fair number of tickets to friends , relatives , colleagues , in fact , anyone who would buy them , but it would n't be enough to fill one tier . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought that we all were friends , ’ Pol said . |
| 18 | And people thought that it all had to be changed . |
| 19 | This monologue went on throughout dinner , after which he insisted that we all went across the road to the village hall where he would show us his slides of the Lake District . |
| 20 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 21 | I knew as we all knew that conscription was inevitable , but I did not want to fight . |
| 22 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 23 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 24 | This they did and we all know what happened . |
| 25 | He did and they all edited it together a week later . |
| 26 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 27 | Yeah , well they did because they all come in a quarter do n't they ? |
| 28 | And as I say er seven people seven workers did when they all that trouble started the bread . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's looking worse than he did when it all happened , ’ said Jenny . |
| 30 | I remembered John Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress and , after explaining the story briefly , said that we all went through a Slough of Despond at some time , but God led us out . |