Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 2 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 3 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
| 4 | I told you we tal I talked , I , I disturbed her all day long . |
| 5 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 6 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 7 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 8 | ‘ We made a writing-table and two whatnots and a bedhead from it , and painted them all Adam green and white . |
| 9 | Andy Kiwomya 's pace caused them all sorts of trouble as Dundee made the early running . |
| 10 | ‘ I bet she told you all sorts of tales . |
| 11 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
| 12 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 13 | That got you all going did n't it , arf arf . |
| 14 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 15 | ‘ Francis taught me all kinds of stuff from books and talked to me . |
| 16 | So the cock and the hen allowed him to take a glistening burnished black and emerald feather and a soft creamy-white feather , and he bade them all good-bye and went into the clearing , and called to the West Wind , holding up his key . |
| 17 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 18 | She called me all sorts of names , said I was a liar . |
| 19 | If you stood and watched them all day , you 'd be certain to keep spotting the odd fish you had n't noticed before . |
| 20 | And having done that , you repeated it all night . |
| 21 | I saw them all war in her face . |
| 22 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 23 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 24 | It took me all day . |
| 25 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 26 | Peace took them all prisoner . |
| 27 | He could have felt superior and thought them all fools for pitying him for getting what he wanted . |
| 28 | She thought them all cowards . |
| 29 | They sent you all notes on |
| 30 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |