Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 2 | Nicandra led them by all the ways she had known and disregarded since childhood . |
| 3 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 4 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 5 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 6 | I put them first in one pocket , then moved them to all my other pockets , except two which I kept secret . |
| 7 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 8 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 9 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 10 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 11 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 12 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 13 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 14 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 15 | There were great gaps of time when no one directed me at all . |
| 16 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
| 17 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 18 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 19 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 20 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 21 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 22 | Life can take many strange twists , ’ Jonas told her in all seriousness , then softened the whole with a laugh . |
| 23 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 24 | But later in the day , after the Christmas meal , alone in her room for an hour 's rest , she unpacked it with all its effects . |
| 25 | Yar , I think I got a copy but I just sort of filed it with all the Quality Manual stuff , as there were various different things which needed . |
| 26 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 27 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
| 28 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 29 | You know , the one who got you into all this trouble . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |